# Minnesota Justice Research Center *Organization named in one at-issue pair; the pack carries no primary documentation of its activities.* The Minnesota Justice Research Center appears in this record only once: as one of four bodies named in an at-issue pair on the measurement of charging and sentencing outcomes by race in [[Dakota]] County. The pair states that no published analysis disaggregates charging or sentencing outcomes by race for Dakota County during [[Backstrom]]'s tenure. It names the Minnesota Justice Research Center, the [[Sentencing Guidelines Commission]], the [[Robina Institute]] and the [[Council on Crime and Justice]] as sources that have not produced one.[^1] The record does not establish the organization's founding, governance, funding, staffing, publications or stated mission. Because the pack carries no self-description, it supports no comparison between the organization's stated purpose and its documented output. The pair characterizes its own conclusion as a finding about measurement, not about outcomes.[^1] ## Who The Minnesota Justice Research Center is listed in the pair alongside three other bodies: the Sentencing Guidelines Commission, the Robina Institute and the Council on Crime and Justice. According to the pair, none of the four has published a race-disaggregated analysis of Dakota County charging or sentencing outcomes for the Backstrom period.[^1] The pack carries no other row, source passage, case or statute citation for the organization. ## In the at-issue record At-issue pair AI-Dakota-087 is drawn from section VI ("Gaps") of the research file *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix*, dated 2026-09-02. The pair is tagged as a negative finding: the absence of a county disparity study.[^1] It sets the absence at twenty-three years after an earlier study, which the pack does not identify. It also states that the county's charging record across thirty-three years has never been measured in this way.[^1] The pack does not give the calendar years of either the earlier study or the thirty-three-year span. The pair lists two report sources, hosted at auditor.leg.state.mn.us and static.prisonpolicy.org. Neither source document is among the URLs the pack allows to be cited, so this article states the finding as the pair's own and not as independently established.[^1] The pair is anchored to a March 2025 White House presidential action on eliminating information silos. Its stated rationale for the anchor is that an unmeasured decision process is, by definition, an information silo. That rationale is the pair's argument; the presidential action itself does not address Dakota County.[^2] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record, *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix* §VI (2026-09-02), pair AI-Dakota-087 — the pair's statement that no published source, including the Minnesota Justice Research Center, the Sentencing Guidelines Commission, the Robina Institute and the Council on Crime and Justice, disaggregates Dakota County charging or sentencing outcomes by race for Backstrom's tenure; underlying sources listed as auditor.leg.state.mn.us and static.prisonpolicy.org, neither carried as an allowed URL. The pair's only carried link is its White House anchor. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^2]: The White House, presidential action on eliminating information silos (March 2025) — the document the pair cites as its anchor. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/