Criminal Justice Coordinating Council Committee Meeting

CRIMINAL JUSTICE COORDINATING COUNCIL

West Square Building, Room 213

505 Broadway Street,

Baraboo, WI  53913                                                                                  Thursday, December 19, 2019

 

Members Present: Judge Screnock, Peter Vedro, Michael Albrecht, Patricia Rego, Cathy Warwick, Dan Brattset, Annette Kuhlmann, Alene Bolin, Judge Jones, Chief Cummings, Tom Kriegl, Elizabeth La Broscian, Captain Lange, John Miller

 

Members Absent: Brian Basham, Jay Englund, Leonie Dolch, Ryan Ramnarace

 

Others Present: Kristen Ederer, Tim Lawther, Robert Mann, Dan Holsmen, Rick Spoentgen

             

Call Meeting to Order:

The meeting was called to order and certification of Open Meeting compliance was given at 3:30 p.m.

 

Adopt Agenda:

Motion by Rego, second Bolin to adopt agenda. Motion carried.

 

Minutes:

Motion to postpone approval of minutes by Kriegl, second by Vedro to postpone approval of minutes. Motion carried.

 

Public Comment:

-Dan Holsmen – Town of Fairfield. Worked in corrections for many years. Has done online research and used Amanda Chestnut’s report to identify the number of individuals in the total population that are currently incarcerated. Gave statistics on the cost of jails and the prevention options. He thinks that CJCC should use early intervention strategies to increase safety of the community and decease the total number of incarcerated individuals, with the ultimate result of saving taxpayers money.

 

Communications:

N/A

 

December CJCC Report – Warwick

-Staff updates/vacancies

-ATC updates: Holiday meal, incentive gift baskets, and upcoming graduation on January 27, 2020

-SUDS participants will be split

-CJCC transition to JDS – will take time

-New on-call cellphone for after hour emergency calls

-Five Point – will be used for grant purposes and to track monthly reports in the future

-TAD Grant funded the trainings on December 16, 2019 and December 17, 2019

-NACO Grant will potentially be used for technical assistance for tracking data. Involved parties: Glen Johnson, Tim Lawther, Captain Lange, Dan Brattset, Regina Baldwin, and Judge Screnock

-Switching from Averhealth to Options Lab for urinalysis testing

-Treatment Court evaluations – anonymously submitted by participants. Should potentially reach out to terminated participants to collect data on what problems/challenges they faced

-Pre-Trial Monitoring Kiosk concerns – Judge Screnock wanted to clarify that the Judges are not comfortable implementing the kiosk as a bond condition/pretrial. Should postpone the kiosk implementation until a plan is in place on when to use it, and whether or not it will be voluntary or a requirement

-Outsourcing marketing materials to assist with boosting community awareness and long term sustainability of CJCC and Adult Treatment Court

-New contract with InCourage: new daily rate/use tax levy dollars to assist with keeping the sober living house open

-Stepping-Up Initiative – John Miller will report on Oklahoma trip at January CJCC meeting

-Cathy – requested that with the CJCC Program Manager on leave and out of the office, it might be a good time to use Tom Weber’s consulting services and expand his contract to assist with the shift in workload. He can assist with developing and finalizing Action Plans, and work closely with the three subcommittees to advance their goals. This proposal was received in a positive way by CJCC committee members, and there was discussion on how Tom Weber can help advance CJCC efforts. Formal vote on this decision will take place at the February meeting.

 

Update on jail software project

-Captain Lange was involved with two telephone conferences with the vendor to discuss data conversion and the transfer of existing data into the corresponding fields in the new software database. The goal is to ensure that they system is set up in the most clean and efficient way.

 

Robert Mann – Discussion on collaboration between Ho-Chunk Nation and Sauk County Adult Treatment Court

-Task: Reach out to other counties to identify what the treatment courts do and the differences between County court systems and Ho-Chunk Nation court systems. Sauk County has the second largest population of Ho-Chunk members in the state, and it is important to clarify the cultural needs of tribal members. Many key principles: collaboration, Healing to Wellness (healing and journey towards healing). Goal is to keep Tribal Court non-adversarial, increase adequate housing, after-care programs, and resources, and network and combine available resources in order to develop and expand collaboration

-Cultural Awareness Training for Law Enforcement in February and March

-Sobriety Pow-Wow at House of Wellness – all participants are welcome to attend

-Chair Vedro requested that Robert attend the inter-county meeting to discuss the piolet projects that he is currently working on

 

Committees: Report on Action Plans and Committee Goals

Adult Justice Systems:

-Integrating Jail data

-Stepping-Up presentation from John Miller – tabled until February meeting

-Postpone Table 2 work; No DA representation

-Work Group: Dan Brattset, Annette Kuhlmann, and Tom Kriegl: looking at unifiers and definition of recidivism. Look at overarching mission targeted at goal of decreasing recidivism. Will bring back data focus to CJCC

-Canceled January meeting

-Next meeting: February 12, 2020 @ 3:30 p.m.

 

Juvenile Justice Systems:

-Canceled December meeting

-Ryan Ramnarace – in process of collecting LE and School Policies regarding youth justice. Want to compare various policies, and look for similarities and differences. May bring schools together to have a discussion on the root issues and the path to improve or prevent these issues

-Next meeting: January 15, 2020 at 3:30 p.m.

 

Victims Services Committee:

-DART: have meet with administration from all but one LE agency in Sauk County and have gone over the proposed changes to the DV worksheet and the APRAIS tool. Tentative buy-in so they will not take it to the Chief’s Meeting in January for more formal approval. Going forward with scheduling the trainings and looking at the first part of 2020 – exact timeframe up for discussion. Gina was the main go between for Arizona and the JDS office, so Cathy and Elizabeth will discuss how to go forward with the communication logistics

-CMRT met 12/18 – Discuss potential space for a CAC for Sauk County, as well as to discuss data that was collected since the last meeting to show need. Safe Harbor has indicated that they may be open to creating a satellite office of their existing program in Sauk County. Discussions on how that would/should/could be implemented are in their infancy and will determine a lot of CMRT’s next steps

-SART met 12/18 – Set up goals and objectives for 2020: continued case reviews for identifying and addressing systemic issues with the Criminal Justice System for victims of sexual assault; victim information dissemination procedures to formalize an appropriate way for the information to be provided to community based advocacy; and in conjunction with the Attorney General’s SART goals, look at the timeline under which community based advocacy is informed of a sexual assault report

-Next Victim Services meeting: December 20, 2019 at 3:30 p.m.

 

Next Meeting Date and agenda items:

-Cancel January meeting

February 20, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 213.

Agenda Items:

-Relook at mission/vision: Segway into recidivism definition

-2019 Annual Report/Evaluation

-Potential action on expanding Tom Weber’s consulting services contract

 

Adjournment:

Motion to adjourn by Rego, second by Lange. Motion carried.

Meeting adjourned at 4:56 p.m.

 

Respectfully Submitted:

 

 

Kristen Ederer