The data, made accessible.

Data products developed by the Data Lab turn raw administrative records and dense source documents into things people can actually use: dashboards for seeing system-level patterns, applications that support decisions as they happen, and tools that answer questions with citations you can verify. All draw on partnerships with state agencies and are intended for researchers, practitioners, and the communities whose lives the data describe.

Administrative Support Tools

Retrieval-Augmented Generation · Beta

Michigan Court Rules Bench Book

A searchable bench book for the rules governing practice in Michigan courts. This is more than a chatbot: it is a retrieval-augmented generation system grounded in an index of 625 rules and 11,860 citable provisions. Ask a question in plain language or enter a citation, and the system first retrieves the governing text, then composes its answer from that text alone. Before any answer reaches you, every citation it contains is tested against the parsed rules, and each answer shows the provisions it rests on and the printed page of the official rules to verify against.

CORPUS 625 rules · 11,860 provisions
CURRENT THROUGH July 31, 2026
Search the Court Rules

Not legal advice. Answers are generated and may contain errors — verify against the official Michigan Court Rules before relying on them.

Visualizations

DASHBOARD

Michigan Juvenile Data Dashboard

A statewide view of juvenile court case activity in Michigan, with filters by county, offense category, and time period. The dashboard makes it possible to compare jurisdictions, track case-flow trends across years, and surface patterns that previously required custom data requests.

PARTNER Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
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WEB APPLICATION

Juvenile Justice Bed Management App

A working operational tool for tracking juvenile justice bed availability across Michigan facilities. Built to support placement decisions in real time, the application gives practitioners visibility into capacity, location, and program type at the moment a placement decision needs to be made.

PARTNER Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
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