NTTAC TTAs

The Bureau of Justice Assistance requested support from Ed Flynn to finalize the language in the Prosecutor's Violence Crime Operations Guide.

We have committed to fund a portion of this work ourselves, to be carried out by WestEd's Justice and Prevention Research Center. We're seeking additional assistance to round out the workload study, and would be interested in discussing a collaboration between NTTAC, WestEd and Sonoma County Probation to strengthen the project, make it most useful for organizing and prioritizing our work, and hopefully be of use to others struggling with the similar challenges.

A TTA request by West Virginia Public Defender Services (hereafter "PDS") to the Bureau of Justice Assistance (as supported by the Center for Court Innovation), focused on information-gathering related to eventual development of a comprehensive criminal justice database, concludes in September 2021. Continuing operations are necessary to further the work of the proposed, collaborative criminal justice database project in West Virginia.

The Westchester County, New York District Attorney's Office requested an assessment of their problem solving courts. BJA NTTAC referred this request to the National Association of Drug Courts.

Hopefully with these TTA we can get new and improved training for our deputies.

John Skinner and Sheryl Goldstein were selected to fulfill this request. The providers held planning meetings with the requestor to discuss their GunStat implementation goals.

The USAO-NDO requested assistance in the development of a tribal grants opportunities database. Joan Brody was selected to fulfill the request and delivered a summary report in August 2021.

Sault Sainte Marie City, Michigan Police Department requested training from Command Presence. This request was denied.

The Miami, Florida Police Department, as part of the Miami Public Safety Partnership Site, requested funding for registration and books for the International Association of Crime Analysts online training courses. BJA NTTAC provided funding support for four representatives to attend the IACA online training courses starting in July 2021 and ending in September 2021.

The Baltimore requested technical assistance from Jerry Ratcliffe to help Increase the understanding of how to use crime analysts and analytical products to implement crime reduction strategies. The requestor withdrew the request.