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The Governor’s Office on Crime Control and Prevention (GOCCP) is requesting assistance to fund eight members of the Governor’s Commission to Reform Maryland’s Pretrial Release System to travel to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to observe the pretrial risk assessment process in that state. Such a visit can be extremely beneficial to the Commission in completing the tasks assigned to it by the Governor. Kentucky is one of the few states in the country where pretrial services is run statewide, an approach that the Governor has asked the Commission to examine.

The Niagara Falls Police Department as stipulated by the "Order on Consent" by the NYS Attorney Generals Office must create a training protocal on cultural diversity, which shall include training on interactions with persons of different races, ethnicities, religious groups, sexual orientations, persons of the opposite sex and persons with disabilities. Also stipulated the NFPD shall create a training protocal on its policy for conduct during citizen encounters, including supervisory responsibility to ensure adherence to the policy by subordinates.

The Tactical Probation Officer, and Natural Response Control Tactics available through Community Corrections Institute.

We are requesting assistance from your Crime Analysis On Demand program. We are currently in the process of signing a settlement agreement with the US Dept. Of Justice Civil Rights Division and will need to improve our ability to compile and analyze crime related data as a part of that agreement. Additionally, the agreement will place significant strain on our existing analytic resources so any training/advice on how to streamline our current operations will be valuable.

We would like an expert, Dr. Stacey Patton, to attend a conference that will be held on June 10 and June 11, 2014 at Madison WI. This conference is regarding corporal punishment, and has the objective of educating key stakeholders in Dane County before commencing reform in the subject area. We are asking for travel assistance.

Our New Orleans Task Force has been updated with new members (for the new prostitution diversion program that we will be implementing soon under the Racial Justice Improvement Project). The following critical members have been added: Henry Dean from New Orleans Police Department, Mark Burton and Ginger Miller from the DA’s Office and Charlene Larche-Mason from the City Attorney’s Office.

Community Justice 2014, which is being hosted by the Center for Court Innovation in partnership with the U.S.

During the past Legislative Session, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) was required to keep the Estimated Approval Rates (EAR) on each category relative to the risk level noted on the matrix as public information. During one of the parole guidelines' revisions, the estimated approval rates were inadvertently left in place on a public document.

The City of Manchester NH is requesting assistance with the implementation and
evaluation of their Hot Spots Policing model and Crime Analysis Unit. The department is
short staffed, with only two crime analysts, one of whom is on temporary assignment, for
a department size that projects to require three full time analysts. In addition to the
evaluation of their existing work, the Crime Analysis Unit would like an assessment on
how to optimize their department to get maximum value out of their limited personnel.

We have just received a PSN Grant for two target areas in Fort Worth. Two Texas Christian University Professors will handle the research, but what we need is assistance for our police partners who have crime analysts but need additional training. This request is for "Crime Analysis on Demand" assistance.