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Provider delivered two day training on "Characteristics of Armed Persons" to aid law enforcement in the recognition, prevention, and suppression of violent gang crimes within the requestor's jurisdiction. BJA NTTAC paid only for travel costs; the requestor paid for the trainer's time and training materials.
We are a relatively new division and have not organized a conference previously and are seeking utilize the training expertise from BJA to help identify and provide quality trainers and presenters for our conference.
As the Luzerne County "kids for cash" scandal demonstrated, Pennsylvania's county funded indigent defense delivery system is failing to meet the needs of their communites and the requirements of 21st century effective legal assistance of counsel. Pennsylvania remains the ONLY STATE that provides NO general fund appropriations to support U.S. Supreme Court mandated legal representation services for adults and children facing loss of liberty.
The Erie County & Buffalo Safe Neighborhood Committee was created by the Erie County Legislature in response to a senseless, deadly shooting on Buffalo’s East Side that took two young lives. The Committee has the responsibility to identify strategies and policy that could help reduce crime in Buffalo. The Committee is looking for guidance and training to help identify these strategies and develop a community-wide plan to combat violence in our neighborhoods.
Creation of an integrated criminal justice database for St. Louis, MO to track persons arrested for offenses involving a firearm. The requested assistance will enable the city to develop, implement, and evaluate the integrated criminal justice data base over a 12 month period.
Currently our Capital Case Litigation subgrantees, the Prosecuting Attorneys Council and the Georgia Public Defenders Standards Council, are requesting assistance with methods to evaluate the assess the performance and progression of their trainings and the development of their trainings. Currently they implement pre and post test, however, they are interested in learning of other evaluation methods. Additionally, they are requesting more training in regards to developing future trainings, agendas and materials for the training sessions for the defense and prosecuting attorneys.
