Pretrial

Conference Call with Smart Prosecution Site Team, Crime Strategies Unit (CSU) Attorneys, Carmen Facciolo (BJA) and Kristen Mahoney (BJA) to discuss CSU needs, resources, SME leads and strategic planning template.

Request to schedule a January conference call for Smart Prosecution Team and research partners to discuss Project INTERCEPT, expanding offense list for program eligibility and potential future meeting with police precincts.
Category: Adjudication

Request for research memorandum to examine legal sufficiency to issue a “detention only” in lieu of an “arrest” for INTERCEPT participants’ criminal record.

Coordinating conference call for early January with St. Louis Project Lead, research partner and Urban Institute regarding considerations when selecting a risk assessment.

Request by Mark Kammerer to speak with Legal Action Center for assistance with proposal to Medicaid Oversight Agency in Illinois for eligibility determination to receive Medicaid Administrative Claim (MAC) funding. Contacting SME Gabrielle de la Gueronnire, (email and phone) Director of Policy at Legal Action Center (LAC) to set up a conference call to provide assistance for specific questions. Conference Call for Chicago with SME Gabrielle del la Gueronnaire (LAC) took place on December 14, 2015.

NLADA will inform the criminal justice community about the Smart Defense Initiative at conferences and training events hosted by BJA, NLADA, and other stakeholders.

At the National Association of Drug Court Professionals National Training Conference on July 28th, 2015, Carol Fisler gave a presentation with Norma Jaeger of the Idaho Supreme Court entitled “From Compliance to Alliance: Using Principles of Recovery, Trauma-Informed Care and Procedural Justice to Improve Outcomes in Co-Occurring Disorder Cases,” to an audience of approximately 100 judges, court coordinators and administrators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, case managers, treatment professionals, and probation officers.

Colette Tvedt and Maureen Cain, authors of the Colorado Bail Book produced pursuant to this grant, trained attorneys at a program organized by the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar on pretrial release advocacy on December 4, 2015.

Center staff provide on-going technical assistance for the Dane County Community Restorative Court, which includes regular phone calls (approximately 1-2 times/month), regular email communication, supplying planning guides and other resources, and connecting local stakeholders to subject matter experts. The goals of the assistance are to: assist the site to engage a project steering committee; develop policies and procedures; implement a risk-needs tool; launch the project; collect and review performance data; and a site visit to a model community court.

APA's Beth Merachnik Participated in weekly conference calls with Carmen Facciolo of BJA to discuss the progress of the Smart Prosecution Initiative