Courts

The Birmingham, Alabama Municipal Court requested assistance to improve its pretrial services programming. The request was later withdrawn by the requestor, citing the agency's need for more time before potential TTA services.

The Chesterfield County/City of Colonial Heights Community Corrections Services requested technical assistance for mapping the residences of clients receiving public assistance and/or mental health services from the local government to ultimately improve efficiency in the delivery of such services. Stewart Bruce was selected to fulfill this request and provided onsite evaluation services of existing resources, met with agency personnel and other community stakeholders, and developed a comprehensive final report with recommendations for the initiative. Mr.

The Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts (TAOC) requested technical assistance in drafting a comprehensive report of recommendations and education for state legislators on best practices for indigent legal representation services. The Sixth Amendment Center was selected to fulfill the request and delivered the final comprehensive report to the TAOC in April 2017. The Sixth Amendment Center continued to provide support to TAOC through August 30, 2017.

Chesterfield County/City of Colonial Heights Community Corrections Services and its county partners are requesting technical assistance for a community mapping project. The purpose of the project is to develop maps which show where clients of specific county agencies reside, and specifically those clients who receive services from multiple county agencies (i.e.: on community corrections services and receiving public assistance and mental health services).

BJA NTTAC received the request and shared the assessment form with Tim Jeffries of BJA. Tim suggested referring this request to American University, one of BJA's Drug Court providers. BJA NTTAC facilitated the referral to American University.

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Since its launch in 2010, the RJIP has identified and helped to reform policies and practices that produce racial disparities in local criminal justice systems across the country.

The City of Las Vegas Municipal Court Pretrial Services Unit is seeking training and technical assistance on the use and research of evidence based practices within its pretrial processes. The primary focus of this request is in regards to the implementation and interim use of the PSA-Court risk assessment tool for making Municipal Court pretrial release decisions. It is also our intention to develop and simultaneously conduct our own research and evidence-based data collection, to later be used in the formation of a locally validated version of this assessment tool.

Domestic violence training from NDAA.

Requesting TTA to establish a municipal court.