# Robina Institute *Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: named in this record in one at-issue item about the absence of a race-disaggregated analysis of Dakota County charging and sentencing.* The Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice appears in the Minnesota record through one at-issue item, AI-Dakota-087. That item states that no analysis disaggregating charging or sentencing outcomes by race for Dakota County during [[Backstrom]]'s tenure exists in any published source. It names the Robina Institute among four bodies from which no such analysis has been published.[^1] The item is filed in the Dakota package of a claims exposure matrix dated 2 September 2026, under the section *VI. THE MONEY* and its gaps list.[^1] The pack holds no self-description of the Institute, no published output of its own, no dollar figure, and no Wikipedia text. This article records the at-issue item and the absence it describes. It does not characterize the Institute's work beyond that item.[^1] ## Who AI-Dakota-087 names four bodies whose published work contains no race-disaggregated Dakota County charging or sentencing analysis for Backstrom's tenure: the [[Sentencing Guidelines Commission]], the Robina Institute, the [[Council on Crime and Justice]], and the [[Minnesota Justice Research Center]].[^1] ## What The item states that the county's charging record across thirty-three years "has never been measured this way." It describes its own conclusion as "a finding about the measurement, and it is the one this file can prove."[^1] The item's tags are no-county-disparity-study, unmeasured, and negative-finding.[^1] ## When The item says the absence persists "twenty-three years after that study." The pack does not identify the earlier study or give its date. The item refers to a thirty-three-year charging record. The source matrix is dated 2 September 2026.[^1] ## Where The item concerns Dakota County, [[Minnesota]].[^1] ## Why The pack does not record why no such analysis has been published by the Institute or the other three bodies. The record shows the absence; it does not establish its cause.[^1] The item anchors the absence to the 2025 White House presidential action on information silos. It gives as its reason that "an unmeasured decision process is the definitional information silo".[^2] ## How The item rests on two sources, both of kind "report." Their domains are auditor.leg.state.mn.us and static.prisonpolicy.org. The pack does not carry the URLs of those reports or describe how the published record was searched.[^1] ## How many The item names four bodies and lists two sources in its evidence basis.[^1] ## In the at-issue record - **AI-Dakota-087 (package: Dakota; rank 87; shock 80).** The item lists the Robina Institute alongside three other Minnesota criminal-justice research and sentencing bodies. It records that none has published a race-disaggregated analysis of Dakota County charging or sentencing for Backstrom's tenure.[^1] Its anchor is the White House presidential action of March 2025, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos*.[^2] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki project, *Dakota_Claims_Exposure_Matrix_2026-09-02.md* §VI GAPS, at-issue item AI-Dakota-087 (2 September 2026). The item states that no published source disaggregates Dakota County charging or sentencing outcomes by race for Backstrom's tenure, naming the Sentencing Guidelines Commission, the Robina Institute, the Council on Crime and Justice and the Minnesota Justice Research Center. Its two underlying reports (auditor.leg.state.mn.us; static.prisonpolicy.org) are not in the allowed set, so the row's only listed URL is its anchor. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^2]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025). This is the presidential action to which AI-Dakota-087 is anchored. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/