General Jurisdiction/Trial Courts

 Lisa Jaeger completed Judicial, Public Safety Codes and Domestic Relations Codes for Scammon bay. Accomplished by telephone, zoom meetings on January 20, 2024, and March 5, 2024, providing 7 hours of individual TTA with Staff, to draft Judicial, Domestic Relations and Public Safety Codes and certificate of adoptions.
 Caroline Lee sent information regarding upcoming Tribal Court Administrator Leadership training to Scammon Bay on June 26, 2024.
 New Tribal Court Administrator emailed introduction to Alaska Tribal Justice Resource Center on June 25, 2024.

Dr. Stephanie Covington, is an internationally recognized clinician, author, organizational consultant, and lecturer. She is a pioneer in the fields of addiction, trauma, and recovery. Covington will present on March 20, 2025. Course Description: Over the past twenty-five years, our recognition of trauma and its impact has increased dramatically, and we have added significantly to our understanding of justice-involved people. With this increased awareness, criminal justice professionals are considering what this means in their specific settings and becoming trauma informed and responsive.

Forensic Expert, Professor Charles Geyh will be presenting on February 11, 2025. As the title indicates Geyh will cover the following: Recognizing and Applying Core Principles of Judicial Ethics: Outlining a judge’s core obligations to act in a manner that promotes public confidence and avoids the appearance of impropriety; Avoiding ex parte Communications: Defining and explaining the prohibition of ex parte communications.

The webinar was delivered on December 19, 2024: The Supreme Court’s Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence: Impact on State Capital Cases. The Webinar was 60 minutes in length and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky spoke in his usual knowledgeable and eloquent way about how recent SCOTUS decisions from various Capital Cases indicate a distinct shift in how the Justices view how states should handle Capital Cases. The webinar was attended by 81 participants and was evaluated quite positively for the content delivered.

In this reporting period, IIR completed a suitability review and received BJA approval for one SME with communications expertise to support program deliverables including delivery of virtual and on-site TTA to project sites.

In this reporting period, IIR completed a suitability review and received BJA approval for one SME with rapid response expertise to support program deliverables including delivery of virtual and on-site TTA to project sites.

In October 2024, in response to an inquiry regarding bystander and peer intervention programs by the Illinois OAG, program staff provided the following resources to site personnel: the Active
Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) project recording (https://vimeo.com/545287450, https://www.law.georgetown.edu/cics/able/) and the Ethical Policing Is Courageous (EPIC) program website (https://epic.nola.gov/home/).

In to a request by the Illinois OAG, TTA program staff supported preliminary planning for a webinar series on hate crimes for Illinois criminal justice personnel. NDAA program partners identified potential speakers for one webinar and provided their bios and presentation materials for review/feedback.

In response to an inquiry by the Rhode Island OAG, program staff provided the site team guidance on how to determine what type of data to collect for performance measures, trending analysis, etc., and potential mechanisms to capture/collect data.