Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2025 or the DC CRIMES Act of 2025.
(1) Limitation
Section 2(6) of the Youth Rehabilitation Act of 1985 (sec. 24–901(6), D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking 24 years of age or younger and inserting under 18 years of age.
(A) Repeal of consideration of individuals 18 through 24 years of age in strategic plan for facilities, treatment, and services
Section 3(a–1) of such Act (sec. 24–902(a–1), D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking paragraph (3).
(B) Community service for individuals under order of probation
Section 4(a)(2) of such Act (sec. 24–903(a)(2), D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking 15 to 24 years of age and inserting 15 to 18 years of age.
(b) Prohibiting issuance of sentence less than mandatory-minimum term
Section 4(b) of such Act (sec. 24–903(b), D.C. Official Code) is amended—
(1) by striking (b)(1) and inserting (b);
(2) by striking paragraph (2); and
(3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2).
(a) Establishment and operation
Subchapter I of chapter 23 of title 16, District of Columbia Official Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
(a) Establishment and operation of website
The Attorney General of the District of Columbia shall establish and operate a publicly accessible website which contains data on juvenile crime in the District of Columbia, including each of the following statistical measures:
(1) The total number of juveniles arrested each year.
(2) The total number and percentage of juveniles arrested each year, broken down by age, race, and sex.
(3) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, the total number and percentage arrested for petty crime, including the following crimes:
(A) Vandalism.
(B) Theft.
(C) Shoplifting.
(4) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, the total number and percentage arrested for crime of violence (as defined in section 23–1331(4)).
(5) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, the total number and percentage who were arrested for their first offense.
(6) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, the total number and percentage who had been arrested previously.
(7) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year who had been arrested previously, the total number and percentage of the number of arrests.
(8) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, the declination rate for prosecutions by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia.
(9) Of the total number of juveniles sentenced each year, the number and percentage who were tried as adults.
(10) Of the total number of juveniles prosecuted each year, the number and percentage who were not sentenced, who were sentenced to a misdemeanor, and who were sentenced to a felony.
(11) Of the total number of juveniles sentenced each year, the number and percentage of the length of time that will be served in a correctional facility as provided by the sentence.
(b) Updates
The Attorney General shall update the information contained on the website on a monthly basis.
(c) Maintaining archive of information
The Attorney General shall ensure that the information contained on the website is archived appropriately to provide indefinite public access to historical data of juvenile arrests and prosecutions.
(d) Format
The Attorney General shall ensure that the information contained in the website, including historical data described in subsection (c), is available in a machine-readable format available for bulk download.
(e) Prohibiting disclosure of personally identifiable information
In carrying out this section, the Attorney General shall ensure that the website does not include any juvenile’s personally identifiable information.
(f) Definitions
In this section—
(1) the term crime has the meaning given the term offense in section 23–1331(2); and
(2) the term juvenile has the meaning given the term youth offender in section 2(6) of the Youth Rehabilitation Act of 1985 (sec. 24–901(6), D.C. Official Code).
(a) Establishment and operation
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(1) Juvenile case records of Family Court
Section 16–2331, District of Columbia Official Code, is amended—
(A) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j); and
(B) by inserting after subsection (h–2) the following new subsection:
(i) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, a person shall provide information contained in juvenile case records to the Attorney General for purposes of the website established and operated under section 16–2340a.
(B) .
(3) Police and other law enforcement records
Section 16–2333, District of Columbia Official Code, is amended—
(A) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
(B) by inserting after subsection (f) the following new subsection:
(g) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a person shall provide information contained in law enforcement records and files concerning a child to the Attorney General for purposes of the website established and operated under section 16–2340a.
(B) .
(c) Effective date
The Attorney General of the District of Columbia shall establish the website under section 16–2341, District of Columbia Official Code, as added by subsection (a), not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.