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.
Tools and Visualizations
Michigan Court Rules Bench Book
A searchable bench book for the rules governing practice in Michigan courts — and more than a chatbot. Ask in plain language or enter a citation: the system retrieves the governing text first, then answers from that text alone. Every citation is verified against the parsed rules, and each answer shows the provisions it rests on and the printed page to check.
Search the Court RulesMichigan 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.
Open DashboardJuvenile 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.
Open ApplicationThe State of Foster Care
A fifty-state view of child welfare performance, built from the federal Child and Family Services Review data profiles. Most report cards reduce foster care to a single number. This explorer separates the measures that number hides — entries, permanency, re-entry — and lets you weight them yourself. The rankings shift as you do, which is the point.
Open ExplorerThe Court Rules Bench Book is not legal advice. Answers are generated and may contain errors — verify against the official Michigan Court Rules before relying on them.