Workgroups

The CJCC works collaboratively and utilizes data to identify system challenges, enact solutions and monitor progress with an ongoing commitment to accountability and transparency. Examples of results achieved include:

• Build a robust data system for combining data from across the criminal justice system (CJS)
• Prioritized alternatives to jail for lower level charges that were most frequently booked and disparately impacting the Black community
• Increased law enforcement's use of community-based services so people could get the help they need rather than a jail bed
• Made bond hearings fairer with public defender representation and Pretrial Service Reports to better inform the Court about the risks of rearrests and/or missing court
• Helped improve the time it takes to get a case moving with attorneys assigned faster and evidence transferred more efficiently
• Published annual reports to inform and update the community about system progress and challenges
• Engaged the community throughout, including active leadership by community representatives, regular community justice forums, and engagement of over 1,200 community members in a 'dialogue to change' process that set the course for the Fiscal Year 2021 - Fiscal Year 2023 Strategic Plan

Implementation of the CJCC's three-year Strategic Plan is led by four workgroups inclusive of community representatives and CJCC members:

• Community Engagement/ Racial & Ethnic Disproportionality & Disparity
• Divert and Deflect
• Bond and Reentry
• Case Processing

The plan includes concrete, attainable goals as well as a foundation for more challenging goals that will necessitate continuing community engagement and support to advance. Each workgroup meets regularly to advance their respective initiatives and provides regular updates in the monthly CJCC meetings.