Equivant in policing
Every deployment of Equivant technology by a law enforcement or justice body currently recorded on the tracker, across 1 country. Each entry is tied to a published source and carries the date it was last checked.
A deployment can involve more than one supplier. This page indexes entries where Equivant is the principal named supplier; the full vendor detail on each entry below remains the fuller answer.
Deployments
US US state courts and corrections agencies COMPAS recidivism and pretrial risk scoring Operational
- Legal basis
- State v Loomis (Wisconsin Supreme Court) held that a sentencing court may use a COMPAS risk assessment as a relevant factor but that it cannot be determinative, and required cautionary warnings about the instrument's limitations
- Oversight
- State court rules and case law; no dedicated regulator
A fourth-generation risk and needs instrument combining static criminal history with dynamic criminogenic factors such as social environment and employment, producing general recidivism, violent recidivism and pretrial misconduct risk scores. Designed for correctional case management and rehabilitation planning, its use expanded into judicial sentencing. Broward County, Florida is a widely cited example. The detailed input factor list circulating in secondary sources could not be confirmed against a primary vendor document, and is therefore not stated here as definitive. The legal position, by contrast, rests on the Loomis judgment and is well established.
Source: Harvard Law Review analysis of State v Loomis; California Courts summary · last checked 2026-08-26