The Public Safety Assessment (PSA) is an actuarial pretrial assessment that predicts failure to appear in court pretrial (FTA), new criminal arrest while on pretrial release (NCA), and new violent criminal arrest while on pretrial release (NVCA). The PSA generates scaled scores of 1 to 6 for FTA and NCA, and may generate a flag to indicate whether a person presents an elevated likelihood of NVCA. When used responsibly and with fidelity, the PSA promotes transparency and consistency, and supports improved pretrial outcomes.
The PSA Scoring App automates the PSA and integrates a jurisdiction’s Release Conditions Matrix, which is used to associate release conditions with PSA scores. The PSA Scoring App also prepares a pretrial assessment report that includes a person’s PSA results as well as the presumptive pretrial release level based on a jurisdiction’s matrix.
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