Actual Innocence

Provide ongoing assistance and support to grantees under the Upholding the Rule of Law & Preventing Wrongful Convictions program (both FY21 and FY22 grantees) through direct consultations and feedback, as well as connecting grantees to each other for more general and global assistance.

Provide ongoing assistance and support to grantees under the Upholding the Rule of Law & Preventing Wrongful Convictions program through direct consultations and feedback, as well as connecting grantees to each other for more general and global assistance. We did not do any in-person visits this term, and met with the following grantees regularly:

Monthly meeting for CIU or IO staff members; topic was about Fingerprinting collection and analysis.

Monthly meeting for CIU or IO staff members; topic was about Fingerprinting collection and analysis.

Monthly meeting of CIUs and IO staff for training; this meeting was on a study of innocence organization's intake processes and how those decisions impact exonerations.

Monthly meeting of CIUs and IO staff for training; this meeting was on a study of innocence organization's intake processes and how those decisions impact exonerations.

Monthly meeting for CIU or IO staff members; topic was the successful collaboration between the Michigan Innocence Clinic and the Michigan Attorney General's Office that resulted in the exoneration of Jeffrey Titus.

Monthly meeting for CIU or IO staff members; topic was the successful collaboration between the Michigan Innocence Clinic and the Michigan Attorney General's Office that resulted in the exoneration of Jeffrey Titus.

Meeting with various CIU and IO staff members to share their intake and triage systems.

Meeting with data experts to discuss how CIUs and Innocence Organizations should collect data and how to analyze that data to improve case selection, investigations, and inform policy decisions

* This TTA Event is also funded by concurrent grant, 15PBJA-21-GK-03607-WRNG