Center staff will assist leadership at the Connecticut State Public Defender's Office to conduct site assessments of local practices in approximately three jurisdictions. The assessments will include interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders, as well as court observations. Center staff will produce a report following each site visit, as well as a summary report with statewide recommendations to implement and scale promising practices.
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Center staff and leadership at OCPD reviewed and refined the scope of work for the project and began planning for a Fall 2016 leadership training in procedural justice.
Center staff met with COPD leadership by phone to discuss possible jurisdictions for the site assessments. We are considering three or four sites that would be a mix of urban and more rural locations and that have a diversity of existing procedural justice practices. Center staff discussed strategies to gain buy-in from involved practitioners and consider longer-term strategies to scale the project beyond the original three or four sites (e.g., train-the-trainer model).
Center staff Emily LaGratta and Michela Lowry conducted a one-day procedural justice site assessment in Bridgeport, CT on March 13, 2017. The site visit included interviews with line staff and agency leadership, court observations, and a courthouse facility review.
Center staff Emily LaGratta and Michela Lowry conducted a one-day procedural justice site assessment in New London, CT on May 24, 2017. The site visit included interviews with line staff and agency leadership, court observations, and a courthouse facility review.
Center staff produced a report in June 2017 that documented both visits and outlined a series of recommendations, including those to improve defender practice directly, as well as for defenders to advocate for change by other agencies within the larger court context.
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