Objective 1: Create a set of data standards to inform budget and policy decisions. General Program Calls:
7/5 Call with Katrice Williams (Senior Fellow) and Katherine Terrell (Program Officer) from The Cleveland Foundation to strategize a Justice Counts luncheon in August.
7/5 Call with Chris Daniel (Executive Director) from American Jails Association to discuss project updates and project deliverables.
7/5 Call with Gwyn Katis (Grant Programs Analyst) from the American Probation and Parole Association to discuss project updates and project deliverables.
7/6 Call with Nicole Barton (Director) of the St. Louis Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to discuss support of Justice Counts in St. Louis.
7/6 Call with Jessica Hong (Product Manager) from Recidiviz to discuss Justice Counts history.
·      7/6 Call with Lili Dworkin (Software Engineering Manager) and Jessica Hong (Product Manager) from Recidiviz to discuss dashboard development.
·      7/6 Call with Tammy Dean (Practice and Implementation Coordinator) and Andrew Krebs (Research Associate) from the University of Cincinnati to discuss project updates and project deliverables.
·      7/10 Call with Deanne Aholt (Research Analyst) and Justin Thomas (Manager) from the Missouri Department of Corrections to discuss Justice Counts Publisher reports.
·      7/11 Call with Melissa Pierson (Chief Operating Officer) from the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy and Programs and Jessica Hong (Product Manager) from Recidiviz to discuss possible visualizations for the Justice Counts public-facing dashboard.
·      7/11 Call with Lili Dworkin (Software Engineering Manager) and Jessica Hong (Product Manager) from Recidiviz to discuss boarding and dashboard development.
·      7/11 Call with Jeff Locke (Senior Policy Advisor) and Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone (Associate Deputy Director) from BJA to discuss Tier 2 timelines and priorities, upcoming BJA review deadlines, upcoming conferences and materials and provide a preview of the Justice Counts agency dashboard.
·      7/11 Call with Timothy Young (Ohio Public Defender), Laura Austen (Director of Policy and Outreach), and Elizabeth Miller (Assistant Director) from the Ohio Public Defenderâs Office to discuss the defense sector in Ohio participating in Justice Counts.
·      7/12 Call with Chris Asplen (Executive Director) and Mike Fargen (Data Center Director) from the National Criminal Justice Association to discuss an upcoming Justice Counts panel.
·      7/12 Call with Dr. Sema Taheri (Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) from Measures for Justice to discuss the Tier 2 metrics process.
·      7/13 Call with John Porter (Chief of Police) from the Butler Township Police Department in Ohio to discuss the Justice Counts team presenting to the Montgomery County Police Chiefs Association.
·      7/13 Call with Stevyn Fogg (Director of Governance and Strategic Initiatives) from the Correctional Leaders Association to discuss project updates, project deliverables, and the Justice Countsâ team upcoming conference appearance.
·      7/14 Call with Mike Fargen (Data Center Director), Bethany Broida (Communications Director), and Elizabeth Pyke (Director of Government Affairs) from the National Criminal Justice Association; Anthony Powers (Executive Director) from the American Equity and Justice Group; and Natalia Bowser (Executive Director) from the Montana Board of Crime Control to prepare for an upcoming Justice Counts panel.
·      7/17 Call with Reginia Herring (Director) of the Palm Beach County Criminal Justice Commission in Florida to discuss presenting Justice Counts to the Commissionâs executive board in September.
·      7/17 Call with Jeff Locke (Senior Policy Advisor) and Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone (Associate Deputy Director) from BJA to discuss dashboard strategy and Tier 2 metrics planning.
·      7/17 Call with Kirk Lonbom (Industry Advisor, Public Safety and Justice, Worldwide Public Sector) Shiqueen Brown (Strategic Partnerships Lead), Kevin Miller (Partner Technical Lead), and Elizabeth Grossman (Director of Civic Projects from Microsoft to discuss potential partnerships between Microsoft and Justice Counts.
·      7/18 Call with Lili Dworkin (Software Engineering Manager) and Jessica Hong (Product Manager) from Recidiviz to discuss onboarding and dashboard development.
·      7/19 Call with Dr. Sema Taheri (Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) and Shelby Davis (Assistant Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) from Measures for Justice to discuss the Tier 2 metrics process.
·      7/20 Call with Megan LaVoie (Executive Director), Jeff Tsunekawa (Research Director), and Casey Kennedy (IT Director) from the Texas Office of Court Administration to discuss Justice Counts in Texas.
·      7/21 Call with Jessica Hong (Product Manager) and Lili Dworkin (Software Engineering Manager) from Recidiviz to discuss dashboard development.
·      7/21 Call with Kiona Gaines (Director of Membership and Marketing) and Natalie Harris (National Communications Director) from the National District Attorneys Association to provide project updates and discuss deliverables.
·      7/24 Call with Major Eric Larson and Jerome Baumgartner (Manager of Research and Planning) from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to discuss Justice Counts in St. Louis.
·      7/25 Call with Jessica Hong (Product Manager) and Lili Dworkin (Software Engineering Manager) to discuss onboarding and dashboard development.
·      7/25 Call with Dean Jenkins (Chief Probation Officer), Nicole Fields (IT Project Manager), and Shamus F. Normile (IT Project Manager) from the Cleveland Municipal Court Probation Department to discuss Justice Counts in Cleveland, Ohio.
·      7/26 Call with Dr. Sema Taheri (Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) and Shelby Davis (Assistant Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) from Measures for Justice to discuss the Tier 2 metrics process.
·      7/26 Call with Beth McLaughlin (Supreme Court Administrator) and Ingrid Gustafson (Supreme Court Justice) from the Montana Supreme Court to discuss Justice Counts in Montana.
Onboarding Calls:
·      7/19 Metric configuration session with Jacki Dickinson (Executive Director), Domonique Paige (Deputy Director of Operations), and Justin Sicilian (Deputy Director of Programs) from the Franklin County Community Based Correctional Facility. They configured all metrics and plan on having all the 2023 fiscal year data entered into Publisher by the end of October.
·      7/19 Call with Hillary Hartoin (Data Analyst) and Dave Wegner (Sheriff) from Cass County to discuss Publisher accounts and metric configuration for Cass County Courts and Pretrial and Jails and the Technical Implementation Guides.
·       7/20 Metric configuration session with Todd Cottrell (Director of Operations) from Eastern Ohio Corrections Center (EOCC), where he configured all metrics. Everything is now set up for the vendor, Secure Manage, to begin working on creating a new exportable report.
·      7/20 Metric configuration session with Janie E. Stanley (Senior Business Analyst), April Hughes (Program Manager), Khalea Shaheen (Data Analyst), and Angela D. Matthews (Chief Deputy of Staff) from the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Clerkâs Office in Ohio. They completed configuring all metrics and plan on sharing data for pretrial releases, criminal case filings, cases disposed, and sentences imposed. They will work with the Common Pleas Court to get confirmation from them on whether they can share the data, but they have the capacity to do so thanks to their data analyst.
·      7/20 Follow-up metric configuration session with Deanne Aholt (Research Analyst) and Justin Thomas (Manager) from the Missouri Department of Corrections to review admissions and new cases metrics.
·      7/25 Onboarding session with Chief of Police Paul Williams, Major Tad Peters, and Cris Swaters (Public Affairs Officer) from the Springfield Police Department to start data location and obtaining a point person for Justice Counts.
·      7/26 Metric configuration call with Laura Roeder-Grubb (Informational Technology Specialist) from Iowaâs Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning to discuss export reports from their RMS system and importing them to the Justice Counts Platform.
·      7/27 Follow-up Publisher conversation with Rhonda Allen (Research Analyst) and Sarah Lewis (Research Analyst) from Iowaâs Marshalltown Police Department to discuss best way to upload data from their RMS system to the Justice Counts Platform.
·      7/27 Exploratory call with Amanda Macias (Special Projects Supervisor) and Jesus Lucio (NIBRS Clerk) from the New Mexico Department of Public Safety, Lili Dworkin (Software Engineering Manager) from Recidiviz, and Suhani Arora (Senior Manager) and Dinakaran Ambigapathy (Senior Director and Developer Manager) from Optmum to begin looking at a new report needed for Justice Counts implementation in New Mexico.
·      7/31 Exploratory call with Delbert Longley (Chief Jail Inspector), Mark Allen (IT), Sarah Fineran (Executive Director) and Dwain Caldwell (Research Analyst) from Iowa Department of Corrections to discuss ways to export jail data from the Chief Jail Inspector RMS system to Justice Counts Platform and identify the data Chief Jail Inspector Longley tracks 8/1 Call with Jeff Locke (Senior Policy Advisor) and Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone (Associate Deputy Director) from BJA to discuss the Tier 2 metrics. 8/2 Call with Dr. Sema Taheri (Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) and Shelby Davis (Associate Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) from Measures for Justice to discuss the Tier 2 metrics process. 8/7 Call with Jeff Locke (Senior Policy Advisor) and Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone (Associate Deputy Director) from BJA to discuss the Tier 2 metrics. 8/8 Call with Jeff Locke (Senior Policy Advisor), Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone (Associate Deputy Director), and Ruby Qazilbash (Deputy Director for Policy) from BJA to discuss the Tier 2 metrics. 8/9 Call with Dr. Sema Taheri (Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) and Shelby Davis (Associate Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) from Measures for Justice to discuss the Tier 2 metrics process. 8/16 Call with Dr. Sema Taheri (Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) and Shelby Davis (Associate Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) from Measures for Justice to discuss the Tier 2 metrics process.
8/22 Call with Diane Robinson (Senior Courts Researcher) from the National Center for State Courts to discuss the courts subcommittee process and materials.
8/23 Call with Beth Skinner (Director) from the Iowa Department of Corrections to discuss the prisons tier 2 metrics.
8/23 Call with Shelby Davis (Associate Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives) to discuss the Tier 2 metrics process.
8/23 Call with Nicole Manzano (Deputy Director of Policy) from the Bail Project to discuss the Tier 2 prosecution metrics.
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