The NCJA project team reviewed the 2018 Strategic Plan submitted by the Connecticut SAA. This plan was submitted in the year prior to the new strategic planning requirement mandated by the Justice for All Reauthorization Act for 2019 applications.
Plan Strengths:
The plan has great supporting data for problem statements. The structure of their criminal justice system and their Criminal Justice Planning Division seems to be very strong and sound. They have all of the right stakeholders at the table. Clear priorities and objectives are outlined.
Plan Opportunities:
1) Although stakeholders are listed and include a wide range of people, it is not as clear how the stakeholders decided upon the priorities.
2) There is a lot of good background information and reference links for data reports, however more baseline data could be included in the actual report as it is related to each of the priorities (ex. recidivism rates)
3) Data collection barriers were not mentioned; however, this could be due to the fact that there might not be many barriers since they have a centralized system.
4) There is a need for SMART goals that have specific and measurable outcomes attached to the priorities/goals.
5) The only deadline noted appears to be the one tied to NIBERS the compliance goal.
6) There is no information on how the JAG funds will be allocated.
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Using a standardized scoring rubric reviewed by BJA, the NCJA team reviewed the plan submitted by the Connecticut SAA for their 2018 Byrne JAG grant application. This review serves as a baseline prior to new reporting requirements implemented with the 2019 Byrne JAG applications.
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