Adjudication

Requesting a study of Philadelphia's indigent defense delivery system. To date, Philadelphia has never conducted a comprehensive, professional study to determine which type of conflict counsel indigent defense delivery system best meets the needs of the City’s criminal, delinquency and dependency court systems. It is prudent for the policymakers of Philadelphia to decide for themselves the appropriate model for delivering conflict services, rather than having something imposed on it through costly litigation.

Ken Sharpe is requesting reimbursement for travel expenses to travel to Boston, MA for a Blue Courage Training on July 14 and 15, 2014.

District Attorney David Soares (of Albany, NY) is requesting travel reimbursement to attend the Blue Courage Training in Atlanta, Georgia on May 7 and 8 2014. BJA has requested that BJA NTTAC provide these travel funds.

The Local Public Safety Coordinating Council (LPSCC) is spearheading Multnomah County's collaborative response to the State of Oregon's Justice Reinvestment efforts set forth in HB 3194. The goal of the State effort is to reduce prison use, reduce recidivism, increase public safety, return cost savings to Locals, and redeploy savings at the State level. Multnomah County (MC) is the largest population center in the State of Oregon.

Dane County, Wisconsin ranks as the nation's highest county in racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Our pre-trial services need to learn best practices to facilitate a reduction in racial disparities and earlier resolution of cases.

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 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.

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.

Seeking greater interest and buy-in from local criminal justice partners for a range of good practices in place in other jurisdictions that we are seeking to encourage development in New Orleans.