The Las Vegas, Nevada Municipal Court requested assistance to review its current case management data and rearrest patterns related to domestic violence and driving under the influence. The Pretrial Justice Institute was selected to fulfill the request and conducted an offsite review of Las Vegas's data in August 2020. PJI provided a report to Las Vegas Municipal Court in August 2020 with an assessment of the data and recommendations.
Like many jurisdictions around the country, Nevada's legislature and Supreme Court have started discussing criminal justice reform. The Nevada Supreme Court recently signed an Order requiring every jurisdiction in Nevada to adopt an evidence-based pretrial assessment by September 2020. Thankfully, the Las Vegas Municipal Court had already been working with a committee of the Nevada Supreme Court on bail reform and was one of the pilot sites that helped develop the evidence-based, and now validated, Nevada Pretrial Risk Assessment. However, as the Nevada legislature reviews the issue and entities inside and outside of the criminal justice system are affected by the Supreme Court's decision, the assessment has come under scrutiny. Because we are the only Court in Nevada that consistently and systematically collects and enters its pretrial data, we are continuously asked to share data and information. Unfortunately, the Las Vegas Municipal Court does not employ a statistician, so we need the help of an individual or agency with the subject-matter expertise to assist us in ensuring that the data and information we share is accurate.
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The Las Vegas Municipal Court previously received a technical assistance grant through BJA who partnered us with the Pretrial Justice Institute, Inc. (PJI). PJI conducted a review of our pretrial data and provided us with findings.
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The prior technical assistance grant that were awarded proved to be invaluable to our organization. The validation provided by PJI that we are collecting the right data points and we are correctly analyzing basic FTA and re-arrest data allowed us to convince the three judges who were not using the evidence-based pretrial assessment to do so. We would very much like your help again.