Adjudication

Prosecuting Attorney Michelle Waymire is requesting travel reimbursement for attendance at a Blue Courage training in Atlanta, Georgia on May 7-8 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.

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.

The Tactical Probation Officer, and Natural Response Control Tactics available through Community Corrections Institute.

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.

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.

The Osborne Association will receive TA in a community planning process during the transformation of 1511 Fulton Avenue from a prison into a reentry facility. This assistance will allow the Osborne Association to engage community members in the planning of programs and services, collect data on neighborhood needs
and assets, and develop partnerships with local community organizations.

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.