Section 6-209 - [Effective until 10/1/2025] Annual report(a) The Commission shall review annually sentencing policy and practice and, on or before January 31 of each year, report to the General Assembly, in accordance with § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, on the activities of the preceding calendar year.(b)(1) The report shall:(i) include any changes to the sentencing guidelines made during the preceding year;(ii) review judicial compliance with the sentencing guidelines, including compliance by crime and by judicial circuit;(iii) subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection:1. for sentences involving a crime of violence, include information disaggregated by circuit on: A. the number and percentage of sentencing events in each disposition category, as indicated on the sentencing guidelines worksheet;B. the number and percentage of sentencing events that resulted in a departure from the sentencing guidelines; andC. for sentencing events that resulted in a departure from the sentencing guidelines, the departure reasons cited and the number and percentage of events in which each reason was cited; and2. for sentencing events involving a crime of violence, report disaggregated by circuit and crime on: A. the average total sentence;B. the average nonsuspended sentence; andC. for sentences in which a portion of the sentence was suspended, the average percentage of the total sentence suspended;(iv) review reductions or increases in original sentences that have occurred because of reconsiderations of sentences imposed under § 14-101 of the Criminal Law Article; and(v) categorize information on the number of reconsiderations of sentences by crimes as listed in § 14-101(a) of the Criminal Law Article and by judicial circuit.(2) The Commission shall consider a sentence to a corrections options program to be within the sentencing guidelines if the sentence falls within a corrections options zone shown on the matrix.(3) The Commission shall conspicuously post the information required to be included in the report under paragraph (1)(iii) of this subsection in a data dashboard on its public website.Amended by 2022 Md. Laws, Ch. 141, Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2022, exp. 10/1/2025.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.