Facilities (General Capacity/Security)

Objective 6: Provide intensive TA to 10 states, supporting the adoption and use of the Justice Counts metrics to drive decision-making.

Objective 3: Promote Justice Counts with the goal of increasing participation and support.
9/9 - Presentation to the Office of the Assistant Attorney General on connections between Justice Reinvestment and Justice Counts.

Objective 1: Use the hub and spoke model to engage all necessary and appropriate subject matter expertise to support Justice Counts design and implementation. (Partners)?
CSG Justice Center staff met with the National Center for State Courts, the National District Attorney's Association, the National Association of Counties, and the National Criminal Justice Association to discuss areas of collaboration.???

Objective 2: Continuously review the metrics, technology, solution for states, and related resources and refine as needed.?(Tier 1 Metrics and TIGs/ Publisher Updates)?
CSG Justice Center staff worked with Recidiviz to release the following updates to the Justice Counts Publisher platform, including updates for both users:
adding a tooltip for the metric total while in the breakdowns view to make the Explore Data portion of Publisher easier for agencies to use;
adding a Configuration Status button to clarify if an agency has finished fully defining a metric;

Objective 3: Promote Justice Counts with the goal of increasing participation and support.?(Developing Promotional Materials and Conference Appearances)?
CSG Justice Center staff presented to the Office of the Assistant Attorney General to showcase the connections between Justice Reinvestment and Justice Counts.?CSG Justice Center staff also met with the Center for Justice Innovation and Measures for Justice to discuss potential session topics for a community courts conference to take place in April.??

Objective 7: Facilitate the adoption and implementation of Justice Counts in additional states. (Light Touch States)?
In Arkansas, CSG Justice Center staff met with the Sevier County Sheriff's Office Jail Administrator to discuss and upcoming presentation and plan for data sharing in Publisher. CSG Justice Center staff also met with the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office to introduce the project and discuss next steps towards opting in.??

Objective 9: Provide structured, ongoing support up to 15 Category 1 grantee states and support the field. (IG States/ Vendor and Automation)?
In Arizona, CSG Justice Center staff met with the Coconino County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to configure metrics and add data to Publisher. CSG Justice Center staff also met with the Navajo County Criminal Justice Coordinator to discuss county wide data efforts.??

Objective 1: Develop standards for local jurisdictions and state criminal justice agencies that will result in data being accurately and comprehensively aggregated at the state and national levels. In September, the last three metrics committees met to discuss and vote on recommendations obtained from the Public Feedback period. CSG Justice Center staff also caught up with committee members who were not able to attend the meetings to include their feedback.

Objective 2: Develop tools and make them available to states and other interested jurisdictions. Work for this objective is now complete with the development and implementation of the Justice Counts Publisher.?
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Objective 5: Develop and run a national campaign to educate criminal justice agency leaders, policymakers, and the public about the Justice Counts metrics. CSG Justice Center staff also worked internally to develop data validation standards for Publisher and to improve the internal tracking the data being shared.??