NM dataXchange

In 2019 the New Mexico Legislature authorized the Crime Reduction Grant Act under HB0267. This legislation directed local Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils to “facilitate sharing of criminal justice information between agencies” NMSA 1978 § 31-28-3(E)(5). It also directed the New Mexico Sentencing Commission to “create and maintain a data-sharing network [to promote] information sharing among criminal justice agencies” NMSA 1978 § 9-3-10(D)(14). Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils from across the state voted to support a statewide data sharing platform.

The NM dataXchange data sharing platform is supplied by Tyler Technologies Data & Insights as a “Data as a Service” (DaaS). The platform is hosted in a cloud environment; allows data to flow in near-real-time; provides other government entities access to the data without allowing access directly to the agency’s case management system; and offers viewing options on the platform or customizable formatting for data downloads.

Currently, limited data from New Mexico Trial Courts, San Juan County, Sandoval County, Bernalillo County and NM Department of Public Safety is available on the NM dataXchange platform.

In 2024 an interactive publicly-accessible platform was launched to share criminal justice data and analytics.  To access the New Mexico Transparency in Justice public site, go to https://www.nmjusticedata.gov/.

There is no cost for our Criminal Justice Partners to participate on the NM dataXchange or New Mexico Transparency in Justice platforms to share or access data and analytics.

For more information about the NM dataXchange or New Mexico Transparency in Justice platforms, please contact us at https://nmcourts.gov/nm-dataxchange/contact-us/.

https://www.nmjusticedata.gov/Glossary of Terms
Justice Partner = State, municipal (per NMSA 1978, Section 3-1-2(G)) or federal law enforcement, corrections agencies, compliance programs (per NMSA 1978, Section 31-20-5.1), municipal judges and court staff, and any state or federal agency involved in adult, family or child welfare.

MOU & Applications
If you are a Justice Partner Agency Head or Agency CIO: MOU

If you are a Detention Center:  MOU 

If you are a Justice Partner IT staff who intends to access the data: JP Application

Submit signed MOUs and JP Applications to support@nmcourts.gov.  Please include “NM dataXchange” in the subject line.

After receiving the unique login credentials, approved registered users can access the NM dataXchange application here: www.nmdataxchange.gov

Any violation of the terms and conditions set forth in the Application for Access to NM dataXchange system by any user, will result in steps being implemented as outlined in this policy.

Once you have logged in, you will be directed to your profile page. This page will display all datasets (referred to as assets on the platform), filtered views, visualizations, forms or stories you’ve created under “My Assets”. To view those that have been shared with you, click “Shared with Me”.

To search for other datasets, you can perform a simple keyword search on the landing page or in the Data Catalog. The platform uses word stemming, which automatically includes common forms of the same root term. For example, searching for “educational,” will also match “education”, “educating” and “educate”. You may narrow a search by selecting a specific category to search within. Categories on the platform refer to the justice partner or type of justice partner that created the dataset.

Search results are rendered based on information contained within the metadata of the datasets. The order of search results are not alphabetical but are determined, in part, by the view count and frequency of updates to the dataset.

The Socrata Education offers several live or on-demand training courses for both end user use and navigation of the platform and datasets; how to create and manage your datasets; and how to utilize the Socrata API to extract and ingest the data into your own CMS/JMS.

The Socrata educational training courses can be found on this website. The Socrata recommended courses are as follows:

• Intro to the World of Data on Socrata (13 minutes, on-demand)
• Create and Manage Your Dataset on Socrata (16 minutes, on-demand)
• Shape and Join Data with SOQL Query Editor (1 hour, live or on-demand)

The more in-depth API or developer training is available on this website. The Socrata recommended courses are as follows:

• Explore Data with Charts on Socrata (1 hour, live or on-demand)
• Map Your Data on Socrata (23 minutes on-demand, 1 hour live)
• Tell a Story with Socrata Perspectives (16 minutes on-demand)

Other recommended training courses are as follows:

• Transform Data with Socrata Query Language
• Data Analysis Tools and Connections on Socrata

The Administrative Office of the Courts along with the NM Sentencing Commission,  are collaborating to propose a long term data sharing governance to ensure continued expansion of the data sharing effort. Once the sharing governance document is complete you will find it here.