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The Bureau of Justice Assistance is seeking applications for their Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 National Community Courts Site-based and Training and Technical Assistance Initiative, which provides support to state, local, and tribal court jurisdictions to support the creation of effective responses to low-level, non-violent offenses.
Deschutes County was approved to become a TTA site for FY'17. They requested TTA to further develop the array of diversion responses available to include individuals who are drug-involved or mentally ill and who are committing more serious felony drug offenses. They also hope to incorporate the use of a risk and needs assessment tool to guide programming decisions and develop an evaluation plan for their drug diversion programs.
Dane County, Wisconsin is home to the world cass University of Wisconsin-Madison, home of the state capitol and commonly voted on our nation's best of's lists. Unfortunately, in the criminal justice system we are rank as United States most disparite county between African-American and white populations. Dane county is piloting a new Community Restorative Court aimed at the 17-25 year old population. r
