Other Victims of Crime

11/14/23: Focus group with 11 probation and parole officers in Elizabethtown, KY to discuss how IPV and DV impact their work.Â

Site Visit Meeting with Representative Nima Kulkarni (10/13/2023). CSG Justice Center staff met with Representative Nima Kulkarni (Democrat, House District 40) to introduce the project and discuss next steps in the project. (1 person in attendance, representing 1 agency)Â

Site Visit Meeting with Senator Whitney Westerfield (10/13/2023). CSG Justice Center staff met with Senator Whitney Westerfield (Republican, Senate District 3) to debrief about the earlier tri-branch meeting and review next steps for the CSG Justice Center staff. (1 person in attendance, representing 1 agency)Â

Site Visit Meeting with Prosecutor’s Advisory Council and The Nest (10/13/2023). CSG Justice Center staff met with Kathy Phillips (Domestic Violence Resource Prosecutor, Prosecutor’s Advisory Council) and Brittany Scordo (Executive Director, The Nest) to discuss project updates and how victim services are serving domestic violence survivors. (2 people in attendance, representing 2 agencies)

Site Visit Meeting with Louisville Criminal Justice Commission (10/12/2023). CSG Justice Center staff met with Stacey Farnam (Public Protection Coordinator, Louisville Criminal Justice Commission) and Dorislee Gilbert (Prosecutor, Jefferson County Attorney’s Office) to discuss project updates and learn more about how the court system in Louisville treats those who commit domestic violence. (2 people in attendance, representing 2 agencies).

Site Visit Meeting with Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) (10/12/2023). CSG Justice Center staff met with Director Erica Hargis (Probation and Parole, DOC), Kim Potter-Blair (Chief of Staff, DOC), Cookie Crews (Commissioner, Department of Corrections) to discuss project update and how the CSG Justice Center team will conduct assessments. (3 people in attendance, representing 1 agency)

Site Visit Meeting with a Combination of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch Stakeholders (10/11/2023).

10/4/2023: Phone call with Senator Westerfield (Republican, Senate District 3) about the possibility of changing the date of the tri-branch meeting. (1 person in attendance, representing 1 agency)Â
10/5/2023: Phone call to Beth Moore (Data Coordinator, Department of Corrections) to establish a date for an in-person meeting between CSG Justice Center staff, Erica Hargis (Director of Probation and Parole, Department of Corrections) and Cookie Crews (Commissioner, Department of Corrections). (1 person in attendance, representing 1 agency)Â

Priority Area 1?Update: CSG Justice Center staff continued analyzing domestic violence incidents from the Kentucky State Police?s compilation of electronic JC-3 forms, merging files to identify the nature of each incident as either intimate partner violence or other family violence. A sizable amount of demographic data was found to be missing from the JC-3 forms, and staff are investigating whether to impute the missing data so that an analysis of trends by race and gender can be conducted. Additionally, the research staff continued working with data provided by the DOC.

Priority Area 1: Data Analysis?