Domestic Violence

The Technical College Criminal Justice program sponsor an annual one day Criminal Justice conference for the community. Local, state, and federal agenices are invited to participate. The topic of interest is "Criminal Justice Leadership in the 21st century Community Policing"

Our program was recently featured in Miami by the Center for Court Innovation (contacts - Julius Lang and Rebecca Thomford Hauser) as one of 10 criminal justice innovation projects worth replicating nationwide. Operational for 4 years, we are currently having internal conversations about the level and delivery of accountability for our chosen repeat felony domestic violence offender population. Denise O'Donnell spoke in Miami about the HOPE probation program, led by Judge Alm, out of Hawaii.

We have an over-whelming request from Sheriff's, Constable's, Chiefs, officers-deputies as well as from school district administrators to host multiple 4-hour blocks of instruction) work shops on Grant writing; specifically for federal government grants pertaining to; school safety & security; hiring of additional school resource officers; community & public safety etc.

Would like to have training on crime prevention.

As the Luzerne County "kids for cash" scandal demonstrated, Pennsylvania's county funded indigent defense delivery system is failing to meet the needs of their communites and the requirements of 21st century effective legal assistance of counsel. Pennsylvania remains the ONLY STATE that provides NO general fund appropriations to support U.S. Supreme Court mandated legal representation services for adults and children facing loss of liberty.