Parole and Probation

Objective 2: Technology Development Technical Assistance From September 11-13, the Recidiviz state engagement team and the project's technical lead met with stakeholders in Washington to discuss the vision for the project and ways that Recidiviz can offer support. Recidiviz received access to the required DOC data and spent the month of September getting familiar with the data to set up the necessary environment to begin analysis. The CSG Justice Center team met with WADOC leadership to present a preliminary project scope to address persistent absconsion trends in the state.

Objective 1: Individualized Technical Assistance to Grantees In September, TDCJ conducted interviews and selected an applicant for the vacant Community Corrections Officer (CCO) position. The selected applicant is currently going through a background check process. CSG Justice Center staff continued the discussion surrounding the purchasing of the GoTo Webinar software. TDCJ reports that they have finalized the purchasing order through the state, yet there's been a lapse in communication from GoTo Webinar regarding the installation date.

Objective 2: Technology Development Technical Assistance In September, Recidiviz hosted representatives from the Parole Division of TDCJ at their Annual Partners Summit on September 18-20 in Seattle, Washington. They utilized that time to discuss TDCJ priorities and opportunities for Recidiviz to support their departmental goals. The Recidiviz engineering team spent the month of September continuing to ingest TDCJ data and connect with the TDCJ IT team to ask questions.

Objective 1: Individualized Technical Assistance to Grantees In September, CSG Justice Center staff did not meet with PADOC for the monthly call due to scheduling conflicts and the program being transferred to a new statewide coordinator.

Priority Area 1: Assist the three delivery systems with identifying strategies and developing comprehensive statewide supervision recommendations and definitions for community supervision.
Update: In September, CSG Justice Center staff assisted working group members in drafting a framework document for the behavior response grid to present to CSAC in November. Further, CSG Justice Center staff continued to draft recommendations for case planning including identifying outcome and metrics for future reporting.

Priority Area 1: Data Analysis

Objective 1: Use the hub and spoke model to engage all necessary and appropriate subject matter expertise to support Justice Counts design and implementation. (Partners)?
CSG Justice Center staff met with the National Center for State Courts, the National District Attorney's Association, the National Association of Counties, and the National Criminal Justice Association to discuss areas of collaboration.???

Objective 2: Continuously review the metrics, technology, solution for states, and related resources and refine as needed.?(Tier 1 Metrics and TIGs/ Publisher Updates)?
CSG Justice Center staff worked with Recidiviz to release the following updates to the Justice Counts Publisher platform, including updates for both users:
adding a tooltip for the metric total while in the breakdowns view to make the Explore Data portion of Publisher easier for agencies to use;
adding a Configuration Status button to clarify if an agency has finished fully defining a metric;

Objective 3: Promote Justice Counts with the goal of increasing participation and support.?(Developing Promotional Materials and Conference Appearances)?
CSG Justice Center staff presented to the Office of the Assistant Attorney General to showcase the connections between Justice Reinvestment and Justice Counts.?CSG Justice Center staff also met with the Center for Justice Innovation and Measures for Justice to discuss potential session topics for a community courts conference to take place in April.??

Objective 7: Facilitate the adoption and implementation of Justice Counts in additional states. (Light Touch States)?
In Arkansas, CSG Justice Center staff met with the Sevier County Sheriff's Office Jail Administrator to discuss and upcoming presentation and plan for data sharing in Publisher. CSG Justice Center staff also met with the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office to introduce the project and discuss next steps towards opting in.??