$2,501 - $5,000

TLPI offered a May webinar series highlighting National Treatment Court Month. The following webinars were offered:
May 2 - Serving LGBTQ2S+ Participants in THWCs;
May 9 - The Power of Storytelling;
May 16 - Implementing and Supporting Trauma-Informed Legal Systems;
May 24 - Mentor Court Program - Promising Practices in Peer to Peer Learning;
May 30 - Protectors, Warriors, and Soldiers (Veteran).

TLPI hosted the Tribal Nations Gathering along with a Tribal Track for the Rise24 Conference. Wellness Court Specialists Kristina Pacheco and Alyssa Harrold, Tribal Legal Specialist Catherine Retana, Skadden Fellow Grace Carson, and TLPI Consultants Judge Korey Wahwassuck, Matthew Lesky, and Simone Ninham attended. The Tribal Track agenda included:
May 22, 2024 - Tribal Nations Gathering
May 23, 2024 - Restorative Justice In Motion: Practical Examples of Restorative Practices in THWC
Understanding Historical Trauma in Native Populations

Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria is a FY22 Adult Treatment Court Grantee. Trinidad Rancheria Court Administrator, Megan Yost, scheduled a time to meeting their new Wellness Court Case Manager, Angela Easterling. In this meet and greet meeting, a request for onsite TTA was made and planned for May 13-14, 2024. The onsite included Wellness Court Specialists Kristina Pacheco and Alyssa Harrold, Skadden Fellow Grace Carson, and Tribal Court Collaboration Specialist Chantel Cloud.
Day 1 agenda:
Opening Prayer, Welcome and Introductions

Combating Law Enforcement Suicide presentation and provided SAFLEO information. Presented Mental Wellness begins at home.

Meet with Bimaadiziwin “Good Life” Case Management Program Staff to Discuss Findings from the Training and Future Program Plans. Will set up select meetings with shelter, behavioral health, and substance use treatment staff.

The Cultural Onsite resulted from two years of working with LTBB as a Mentor Court Program and the technical assistance requests from other programs across the country to implement more traditional activities into their own Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts. LTBB offered to host a cultural onsite training to offer examples of the way they do things in their program, and encourage other programs to use their own traditional activities and how they can engage their own cultural practices and creation story into programming.

PRC presented at NDAA's 2024 Summer Summit which is a prosecutor consortium.

Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her Colorado home on Christmas Day in 1996. This presentation will first provide an overview of the publicly available evidence and identify investigative challenges with this unsolved case. Then the presenter, an experienced former federal prosecutor who was not involved in the investigation, will describe the present and emerging high technology and digital evidence that might be available if the same crime happened in 2023.

This presentation will describe the present and emerging high technology and digital evidence that can further an investigation and prosecution. It will explore new ways to investigate and prosecute cases using a new functional approach to high technology and digital evidence. This will include discussions of cell phone tracking, IoT evidence, DNA, open-source intelligence, smart homes, smartphones, geolocation, and other potential sources of evidence.

Training Title: Ask the Expert: Steve DeBrota on Prosecution and Investigative Strategies

This training provides investigative techniques, legal strategies, case studies, and forensic research from Purdue University and the National White-Collar Crime Center concerning how to understand, collect, interpret, and explain wearable fitness device evidence in legal proceedings. This includes medicolegal issues in violent crimes investigations, such as time of death, cause of death, and relevant vital signs.

Title of the training: Narrowing the IoT Divide: Officer Safety in the Digital Age