Court Services

Our community has various issues with street gangs and motorcycle gangs as well as drug sales and use. We have very little funding available to provide training to educate law enforcement on these topics and many of the usual resources (NCTC, MAGLOCLEN) have reduced their training due to a reduction in funding.

We would like an expert, Dr. Stacey Patton, to attend a conference that will be held on June 10 and June 11, 2014 at Madison WI. This conference is regarding corporal punishment, and has the objective of educating key stakeholders in Dane County before commencing reform in the subject area. We are asking for travel assistance.

Our New Orleans Task Force has been updated with new members (for the new prostitution diversion program that we will be implementing soon under the Racial Justice Improvement Project). The following critical members have been added: Henry Dean from New Orleans Police Department, Mark Burton and Ginger Miller from the DA’s Office and Charlene Larche-Mason from the City Attorney’s Office.

Community Justice 2014, which is being hosted by the Center for Court Innovation in partnership with the U.S.

We have just received a PSN Grant for two target areas in Fort Worth. Two Texas Christian University Professors will handle the research, but what we need is assistance for our police partners who have crime analysts but need additional training. This request is for "Crime Analysis on Demand" assistance.

We are requesting training and team building in the Project HOPE Model, from Jude Alm (the creator of the program model in Hawaii) and the speical team from Pepperdine University. We are implementing Project HOPE in the Worcester Courthouse and this training is essential to the effective implementation of this evidence based model. This is a unique opportunity to have the nation's leading experts conduct the training.

GLT needs to develop a wellness-based strategic and comprehensive justice system, built upon the strength of individual components and bringing together our young Public Safety Department (established 2011) and Tribal Court (established 2010) with our more mature Health and Human Services (HHS) Department. Each of the three departments, Public Safety, the Court and HHS serves very specific needs of our citizens; yet there is not a mechanism in place to coordinate services.

We are in need of fiancial support to provide training on smarter sentencing to corrections professionals in our area

The Lee County Probation Department is in need of implementing evidence based practices. Currently, we have a little over 2,800 active probationers and are not able to effectively classify these probationers by risk and or needs. At this time, most of the decision making is driven by charge.

Violent crime is a significant problem in the Northern District of Alabama. One of the larger cities in our District is Anniston. Members of the law enforcement community and government officials in Anniston wish to combat the violent crime problem there by initiating a Drug Market Intervention (DMI) approach. Therefore, the Northern District of Alabama is seeking assistance from NTTAC to receive DMI training, preferably from the National Network for Safe Communities.