Technology Implementation - Fusion Center

The Building Communities of Trust (BCOT) initiative focuses on developing trust among law enforcement, fusion centers, and the communities they serve to address the challenges of crime and terrorism prevention.

The Building Communities of Trust (BCOT) initiative focuses on developing trust among law enforcement, fusion centers, and the communities they serve to address the challenges of crime and terrorism prevention.

RAND conducted the third in-person meeting of the Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group, to include facilitating, dynamically capturing and analyzing the discussion and findings, and providing logistics and administrative support. The purpose of this meeting was to broadly survey inter-related technological, social, and political trends with the greatest impacts on criminal justice, discuss what the impacts are and will likely be in the near future (2-5 years), and develop potential responses.

Center staff conducted 2 email correspondence with the Mille Lacs Tribe. The purpose of the email correspondence was to discuss the process of organizing and coding data. Staff assisted in creating an outline of work that needed to be done to draft a needs assessment report based on the qualitative data of the Family Services interviews and focus groups.

Center staff attended a round table discussion hosted by Rand Corp discussing technology needs in small, rural, border, and tribal communities.

Center staff facilitated a round table discussion between the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the 11 tribes of Wisconsin in an attempt to create a criminal justice coordinating committee for the 11 tribes.

Center staff conducted a site visit at the Lac du Flambeau Tribe to facilitate a round table discussion between the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the 11 tribes of Wisconsin in an attempt to create a criminal justice coordinating committee for the 11 tribes.

Center staff conducted a site visit at the Pascua Yaqui Tribe to conduct technology needs assessment.

Center staff conducted a site visit at the Colorado River Indian Tribe and met with Judge King and the Community Court coordinator, Pete Sabori to discuss community court planning.

Center staff conducted 2 phone calls and 6 email correspondence with the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians to discuss possible locations for a site visit for their DV court advisory board. Center staff suggested other tribal domestic violence programs they could meet with to discuss strategies for implementing culturally responsive programming. Center staff also set up several calls with the LTBBO DV court coordinator and our contacts at 2 other tribal DV programs.