Understanding
the Money Collected For Fees, Fines, Costs and Restitution Dashboard
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following information applies to both the Common Pleas
Court and Magisterial District Court versions of this
dashboard.
This dashboard displays
the disbursement
of monies collected
by the courts to state/local governments and other public
entities.
Five separate measurement methods
are used to display statistical results within this dashboard: |
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Annual Disbursement of Fees,
Fines, Costs, and Restitution Collected by Courts (bar graph) |
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Displays the amount
of money that was distributed by the courts over several
years, per state and county law, to state and local governments/agencies,
private restitution (includes individuals and insurance
agencies), and other public entities. The amount disbursed
is based on the total payments receipted that year, on
the court-ordered assessments levied in any year,
and excludes all monies associated to refunds and vouchers.
These amounts are not cumulative from one year to the
next. The gray line that runs across this graph represents
the average yearly disbursement amount for all years displayed.
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Total Disbursements
of Court Fees, Fines, Costs, and Restitution by County
(map) |
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The
map of Pennsylvania offers a more illustrative way of
portraying disbursement
totals for each county over a specific time period.
Various
shades of green are used to reflect these totals. Lighter shades represent
smaller disbursement
totals and
darker shades represent counties with higher totals. Hovering
your mouse pointer over any county displays an informational
popup that provides the county name, its county number,
and its county class. In addition, this popup displays
the county's precise disbursement
total.
The
shaded counties that appear in the map are based
on the selections in the Select
a County and Select a County
Class filters at the top of the screen. For example,
if the dashboard is restricted to Allegheny County through
the Select a County
filter, only an image of that county is displayed on the
map. Alternatively, selecting ‘3’ from the Select
a County Class filter places a focus on the counties
within that class by removing the green shading from all
counties outside that class.
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Annual Disbursement
of Court Collections by Recipient (table) |
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Displays
the amount disbursed by the courts, over several calendar
years, to the Commonwealth (state), counties, municipalities
(cities, townships, or boroughs), and private restitution.
An additional category, Other, shows disbursements to
other public institutions such as schools, libraries,
tax agencies, etc. Disbursements, depending upon the costs/fees
and fines assessed, are allocated to each of these entities
by state or local law.
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Ten-year Total of Court
Disbursements by Recipient (bar
graph) |
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Based
on the total disbursement amount over the last ten calendar
years, this bar graph represents the amounts applicable
to each recipient category.
See example
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Annual Percentage of
Court Disbursements by Recipient (table) |
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Based
on the disbursement amounts for several individual years,
this table displays those amounts in each recipient category
as a percentage of the total dollars disbursed that year.
The percentages displayed are not cumulative from year
to year.
See example
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