Priority Area 1: Engage and educate Kansas stakeholders on Justice Reinvestment policies and legislation to promote oversight and sustainability.
Update: In May, CSG Justice Center staff connected with key staff in the Kansas Governor’s Office to discuss Justice Reinvestment Initiative-related legislation (HB 2631, SB 408, and SB 366) that was enacted during the 2022 legislative session. CSG Justice Center staff also took the opportunity to discuss shared goals for an upcoming site visit to Kansas in June. The governor’s office requested an in-person meeting with CSG Justice Center staff following the large in-person collaborative implementation meeting. The governor hopes to hear the outcome of this meeting and determine how her office can better support executive branch agencies’ efforts to meet their JRI goals.
Other stakeholder meetings focused on the state’s subaward application. CSG Justice Center staff worked with the Kansas Sentencing Commission (KSSC) to complete and submit the state’s first subaward application for data system upgrades that would connect KSSC’s and the Office of Judicial Administration’s (OJA) data systems and allow KSSC to better analyze sentencing and probation revocation data. CSG Justice Center staff also worked with KDOC on their application materials for their Athena’s data system upgrades.
CSG Justice Center staff also focused efforts on planning the team’s first site visit to Kansas in early June. This visit will include individual meetings with key stakeholders to discuss implementation priorities and challenges leading into a large collaborative meeting with a cross-section of key criminal justice system players, including KDOC, OJA, the Prisoner Review Board (PRB), community corrections agency leadership, and chief court services officers. The goal of this meeting is to set priorities for a regular group to lead implementation of legislative and administrative community supervision changes.
Priority Area 2: Assist Kansas with monitoring progress, collecting data, and tracking outcomes associated with JRI policies.
Update: In May, CSG Justice Center staff met with KDOC staff to identify metrics from KDOC for ongoing data monitoring and brainstorm ways to track measures for policies in which the KSSC doesn’t receive data, including pre-conviction diversion and specialty courts.
Priority Area 3: Improve the community supervision system by creating efficiencies, consistency, coordination, and collaboration between OJA, KDOC, and Community Corrections entities.
Update: In May, CSG Justice Center staff worked with leaders from OJA, KSSC, KDOC, the PRB, Community Corrections agencies, and Court Services officers to secure buy-in for everyone to participate in a collaborative implementation meeting in June. As mentioned above, CSG Justice Center staff will travel to Kansas in June to kick off the group meeting and establish a plan of action to begin community supervision implementation work. CSG Justice Center staff will follow up on the administrative recommendations outlined in the KCJRC’s 2021 report as well as the implementation of SB 408, the new concurrent supervision legislation.
Priority Area 4: Implement standardized general conditions of supervision and utilize a risk, need, responsivity (RNR) framework to select special conditions of supervision.
Update: In May, CSG Justice Center staff continued to discuss with the Center for Effective Public Policy (CEPP) how to effectively to support administrative changes to community supervision in Kansas. For the upcoming June site visit, CSG Justice Center staff discussed how CEPP will engage with stakeholders and implement the work identified. The collaborative meeting in June will specifically discuss moving forward standardized conditions of supervision administratively since the bill that would have enacted this change did not make it to the floor during the 2022 legislative session.
Priority Area 5: Engage with KDOC and KDADS to improve reentry and behavioral health services for people in the criminal justice system.
Update: CSG Justice Center staff and KDADS have engaged with Policy Research Associates (PRA) to begin planning a statewide Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) summit, scheduled for June 15. KDADS is planning a parallel SIM summit for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), and CSG Justice Center and PRA staff worked to ensure the JRI SIM efforts are additive and coordinated with this separate summit. The SIM summit will help provide recommendations and best practices on how the state can support and uplift services that help people living with a mental illness, substance use disorder, and co-occurring disorders, aligning with work done by the KCJRC in 2020 and 2021.
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