$20,001 - $25,000

In 1995, C.O.P.S. began offering the highly-acclaimed trainings called “Traumas of Law Enforcement” to prepare law enforcement agencies to provide counseling and peer support following line-of-duty deaths and other law enforcement tragedies such as disability and suicide. An extensive curriculum on death notification, handling a line-of-duty death, law enforcement suicide, the emotionally affected officer, and the disabled officer are all taught at these trainings. In 2019, we began making peer support and counseling referrals available to the officers attending the training.

Provide ongoing assistance and support to grantees under the Upholding the Rule of Law & Preventing Wrongful Convictions program through direct consultations and feedback, as well as connecting grantees to each other for more general and global assistance. During this period, we met regularly with Innocence Delaware, CPCS, Boston College Innocence Program, Arizona Justice Project, Great North Innocence Project and Minnesota Attorney General's Office, Midwest Innocence Project, California Innocence Project, Georgia Innocence Project and the Fulton County DAO.

Provide ongoing assistance and support to grantees under the Upholding the Rule of Law & Preventing Wrongful Convictions program through direct consultations and feedback, as well as connecting grantees to each other for more general and global assistance. During this period, we met onsite with the Great North Innocence Project and the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, the Idaho Innocence Project, the Iowa Public Defender, the Midwest Innocence Project, and the MidAtlantic Innocence Project.

Through this activity, JSS supports the micro-grantees to develop a comprehensive body worn camera program with the use of federal funds. JSS ensures that all requirements and regulations are adhered to and that the program is comprehensive in nature.

The following activities occurred during this reporting period:

CSG Justice Center staff held 227 contacts (via phone and email) with FY16-FY19 grantees in the month of January.

CSG Justice Center staff held 245 contacts (via phone and email) with FY16-FY19 grantees in the month of January.

In February, CSG Justice Center staff continued to socialize the guidelines and engage key partners in the field, further developed outreach strategies and project next steps, finalized the technical assistance strategies, worked to complete the introductory webinar presentation, and finalized presentations for the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) winter training institutes.

Analysis Area 1: Facilitate a cross-system data match between DHHS and county jails to identify the overlapping population of people who have behavioral health challenges who move through local criminal justice systems and identify high utilizers of both systems. CSG Justice Center staff will conduct an in-depth descriptive analysis of the matched Medicaid claims data to provide information on trends in services accessed in the community by people incarcerated in each participating jail.

Priority Area 1: Engage and educate Kansas stakeholders on Justice Reinvestment policies and legislation to promote oversight and sustainability. Update: Three bills relating to JRI policy recommendations were introduced in the Kansas legislature but are all still in their respective committees and have not moved to a floor vote. The legislation is intended to extend early release options for those on probation, enhance good time credits for people in jail, and allow people with felony drug convictions to access food assistance programs.