For Immediate Release:
Monday, December 8, 2025
Today, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced that for the first time, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office has live screening data, for the more than 29,000 cases filed by this office in the last two years, available on our website. The information is presented in a public-facing dashboard accessible to everyone.
The data currently extends back to 2023, when the SLCo DA’s Office transitioned to a new case management system that made this dashboard possible. The data is a rolling 24-month time period that updates daily. A user can select any date range from December 2023 to the present using an interactive slider to look at the data during the desired time period. Making this information publicly available has been a long-standing priority for District Attorney Gill, and over the last two years members of his executive team, in partnership with the Salt Lake County data analytics team, have brought this project to life.
This release represents the first phase of our initiative to make data from this office publicly available and easily accessible. In future phases, the District Attorney’s Office will add data that tracks case outcomes as well.
The dashboard contains two primary tabs, “Screening Flow” and “Screening Outcomes,” along with three supplemental tabs: ”Screening Diagram,” “Definitions,” and ”User’s Guide.” The “Screening Flow” tab tracks cases by events rather than by case file, illustrating that a single case may go through multiple reviews, or events, before being filed. Demonstrating the data by event helps show how much of the screening team’s workload is occupied by multiple actions within a single case. A user can see on the “Screening Flow” tab in the “Cases Received by Month” section, that over the last two years, July 2025 had the most screening events at 1,919, just that month, while June 2024 saw the lowest screening events at 1,341. That helps show that our screening team has at least 1,300 screening events per month to work through, but on average it is closer to 1,500 screening events a month.
The dashboard contains multiple tabs designed to help the public better understand the screening process. For example, on the “Screenings Outcomes” tab a user can see over the last two years that 78% of the cases received by this office are filed. A 2020 survey of state prosecutors’ offices conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, found that offices similar to the size of the SLCo DA’s Office, with a jurisdiction of 1,000,000 residents or more, filed charges on just 72% of all felony cases[1]. A user can also see on that same tab that over the last two years this office has declined 26.2% of cases. That same DOJ survey found that nationally, an office our size declines 27% of felony cases. If a user slides the date range to cover just the last year that declination rate dropped to just 22.7%.
Users can view a breakdown of the percentage of cases submitted by each law enforcement agency, crime type, and degree of charge. They can also see the percentage of cases that make up prosecutors’ workloads. For example, since December 2023, 68% of cases filed by our office have been handled by the Major Crimes prosecutors, who prosecute general felonies like drug offenses, property crimes, burglaries and aggravated assaults. Meanwhile, just 0.1% of filed cases are gang cases, and 8.8% are special victim cases.
By clicking on sections of the charts in both the “Screening Flow” and “Screening Outcomes” tabs, users can explore additional breakdowns, such as the percentage of third-degree felony (F3) cases that are drug, assault, or sex offenses. More than 30 crime types are broken down by percentage for both screened and filed cases. In addition, a user can click on “F1” in the “Screening Outcomes” tab and see that more than 52% of first-degree felony cases filed by this office have a lead charge categorized as sexual assault, while 4.6% of first-degree felony cases filed have a lead charge categorized as a homicide. A user would also see when clicking on “F1” that 59% of our first-degree felony cases are prosecuted by our Special Victims prosecutors.
The dashboard also shows the percentage of cases submitted by each police department. For example, Salt Lake City Police, the largest police department in the county, accounts for nearly 30% of all filed cases, while Herriman Police, one of the smaller police departments, accounts for 1.1% of cases filed.
Additional metrics include the ratio of cases filed to cases received, as well as the ratio of cases declined to cases received.
One tab explains the flow of the screening process. When viewed on a desktop computer, users can hover over each part of the process to see detailed explanations in tooltips or pop-up boxes. For example, a user will see on the “Screening Diagram” tab that “Request FI” is part of the screening process. When a user hovers over the button for “Request FI”, a tooltip will appear explaining what happens when the screening team requests further investigation from law enforcement during the screening process.
Accessing the dashboard on a desktop computer is recommended for optimal functionality, though if a user scrolls through the dashboard webpage, above the dashboard there is a button that will take the user to a mobile friendly version.
“This data is not our data—it is the public’s data, and that is why we are publishing this dashboard. Over the last several years, we have made a concerted effort to share prosecution-related data with the community,” said Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill. “The publication of this dashboard makes even more of that information available on an ongoing basis, allowing the public to explore the cases we file or decline and the percentage of cases submitted by each law enforcement agency. I am happy to make this data available and look forward to expanding what we share in the future.”
December 8, 2025