Smarter Solutions for Crime Reduction:
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
Strategic Planning Initiative
September 22-23, 2010
Four Points by Sheraton-Chicago O'Hare
10249 Irving Park Road, Schiller Park, Illinois, 60176
Phone: (847) 671-6000 /
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Day 1: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
7:30-8:30AM REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30-8:50AM WELCOME MESSAGE
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Jack Cutrone, Executive Director, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
8:50-9:15AM OPENING REMARKS
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Illinois Governor Pat Quinn
9:15-9:45AM KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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Cynthia Caporizzo, Special Advisor for Strategic Planning to the Director,
Executive Office of the President, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
9:45-10:00AM BREAK
10:00-11:30AM PANEL PRESENTATION I
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Why You Need the Neighborhood: Ensuring Community Participation
in Public Safety
This panel will present three collaborative strategies for crime control that demonstrate the value of law enforcement working with local residents to ensure public safety. Each model includes multiple participants, including law enforcement, prosecutors, local residents, and social service providers to carry out the strategy.
Moderator
Rachel Johnston, Director of Research and Development, Chicago
Police DepartmentPanelists
Public Safety and the Community
- John Chisholm, State's Attorney, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Rockford and Peoria Drug Market Intervention Initiatives
- Rodney Brunson, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
- Nicholas Corsaro, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University
- Chief Chet Epperson, Rockford Police Department
- Chief Steven Settingsgaard, Peoria Police Department
The Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence
- Lisa Contos Shoaf, Director, Statistical Analysis Center Director, Office of Criminal Justice Services, Ohio Department of Public Safety
11:30-12:30PM BREAKOUT SESSION I
Breakout Rooms
Acknowledging Challenges
This working session offers participants the opportunity to discuss with others from around the state the primary challenges facing their agencies and communities.
12:30-1:45PM WORKING LUNCH
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Smarter Spending: Reducing Spending on Corrections to Increase Public Safety through Justice Reinvestment
Michael Thompson, Director, Justice Center, Council of State Governments
This presentation describes a multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary strategy designed to reduce spending on corrections, increase public safety, and improve conditions in neighborhoods to which people are most likely to return from prison will be presented. Examples of justice reinvestment in other states and the implications for the model also will be discussed.
1:45-3:00PM PANEL PRESENTATION II
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The Two Hardest Problems: Addressing Drug Abuse and Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System
This session presents three approaches to addressing justice-related challenges posed by individuals with substance use and mental health disorders will be presented. The strategies offer a local perspective about planning for, implementing, and assessing promising and evidence-based models within Illinois.
Moderator
Art Lurigio, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University Chicago
Panelists
Chicago Police Department Crisis Intervention Team Training
- Lieutenant Jeffry Murphy, Crisis Intervention Team Coordinator, Chicago
Police Department- Officer Kurt Gawrisch, Chicago Police Department
The Winnebago County Therapeutic Intervention Program
(Mental Health Court Program)
- The Honorable Janet Holmgren, Chief Judge, 17th Circuit Court
- Michelle Rock, 17th Circuit Specialty Courts Administrator
Bringing Drug Courts to Scale
- Brett Taylor, Deputy Director for Technical Assistance, Center for Court Innovation
3:00-3:10PM BREAK
3:10-4:30PM BREAKOUT SESSION II
Breakout Rooms
Identifying Smarter Solutions
This working session explores the potential integration of panel session strategies into the work of participants in their local jurisdictions. Facilitators will help to distill the challenges identified in Breakout Session I into actionable, realistic, and measurable goals for the strategic plan. These goals will be categorized by action strategies of multi-jurisdictional or multi-disciplinary partnerships, promising or evidence-based strategies, and professional development and training.
5:30-6:30PM OPTIONAL SPECIAL SESSION
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Funding Sources in a Time of Fiscal Challenge
Cabell Cropper, Executive Director, National Criminal Justice Association
Implementing or maintaining effective strategies in the face of tight budgets and tough economic times is a universal challenge facing all public sector managers and practitioners. State and local criminal justice decision makers must be savvy in the ways of grant funding to fulfill their obligation to provide public safety.This workshop provides an overview of adult federal funding sources from partners and non-government funding opportunities including professional associations, foundations and other sources. Selecting a funding source, understanding the funding cycle, and the essentials of successful funding proposals are also discussed.
Day 2: Thursday, September 23
7:30-8:15AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:15-8:30AM WELCOME BACK AND CHARGE FOR THE DAY
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Jack Cutrone, Executive Director, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
8:30-10:00AM PANEL PRESENTATION III
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Staying Ahead of the Curve: Current Illinois Initiatives
This session presents an overview of the innovative public policy initiatives currently taking place at the state and local levels to address the needs of justice-involved individuals, victims of crime, and families, and communities while attempting to conserve resources and protect public safety.
Moderator
Paula Wolff, Senior Executive, Metropolis 2020
Panelists
The Illinois Mental Health and Justice Initiative
- Justice Kathryn Zenoff, Chair, Illinois Supreme Court Mental Health
and Justice Judiciary CommitteeCurrent Victim Services Initiatives
- Anita Alvarez, State's Attorney, Cook County
Current Illinois Corrections Reform Initiatives
- Gladyse Taylor, Acting Director, Illinois Department of Corrections
The Illinois Reentry Collaborative
- Esther Franco-Payne, Program Director, Metropolis 2020
10:00-10:15AM BREAK
10:15-11:30AM PANEL PRESENTATION IV
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Letting Success Guide Public Policy
This session offers a realistic perspective about the relationship between research and evaluation and its potential for informing local-level criminal justice strategies. The practical approach is designed to offer participants readily available strategies for using information to guide decision-making.
Moderator
Candice Kane, Chief Operating Officer, Chicago Project for Violence Prevention
Panelists
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority's Interactive Data Application
- Mark Myrent, Director, Research & Analysis Unit, ICJIA
- Mark Powers, Research Analyst, Data Resources & Analysis Center, Research
& Analysis Unit, ICJIA
McLean County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
- The Honorable Elizabeth Robb, Chief Judge, 11th Circuit Court
- Lori McCormick, Director, McLean County Court Services
Evidence-Based Law Enforcement
- Dennis Rosenbaum, Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
11:30-12:45PM WORKING LUNCH
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Keynote Speaker
Mary Lou Leary, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice
12:45-1:00PM BREAK
1:00-2:15PM PANEL PRESENTATION V
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What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You: Sharing Data and Information through Criminal Justice Partnerships
This session features strategies for state and national information sharing standards, policies, and practices that promote effective and efficient information sharing at all levels of government and across the justice and public-safety landscape. Panelists discuss their experiences in implementing these standards and practices, and encourage participants to think about how they can adapt to changing technologies.
Moderator
Robert Boehmer, Director, Institute for Public Safety Partnerships, University of Illinois, Chicago
Panelists
Illinois' I-CLEAR and I-CASE
- Jonathon Monken, Acting Director, Illinois State Police
Setting the Stage: The Future of Information Sharing
- Paul Wormeli, Executive Director, IJIS Institute
Court and Human Services Information Sharing Partnerships
- Diana Graski, Court Technology Associate, National Center for State Courts
Illinois Integrated Justice Information Sharing Initiative
- Dorothy Brown, Cook County Circuit Court Clerk
2:15-2:30PM BREAK
2:30-3:30PM BREAKOUT SESSION III
Breakout Rooms
Beginning the Action Plan
This working session builds a consensus about broad goals for the strategic plan within three action strategies: multidisciplinary partnerships; promising or evidence-based strategies; and professional development and training. Participants also will discuss next steps for drafting the plan, including follow-up working group meetings and identifying objectives and measures within each plan category.
3:30-3:45PM BREAK
3:45-4:30PM ACTION PLANNING & CLOSING
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Drafting Next Steps: Funding, Research, and Public Policy
In this last session, facilitators share issues identified in their breakout groups and discuss next steps in the strategic planning process, including follow-up meetings, a report-vetting process, and an implementation plan over a five-year period.
Moderator
Kay Chopard Cohen, Deputy Director, National Criminal Justice Association
Facilitators
- Robert Boehmer, Director, Institute for Public Safety Partnerships, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Cabell Cropper, Executive Director, National Criminal Justice Association
- Patricia Dishman, Director, Office of Criminal Justice Programs, Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration
- Candice Kane, Chief Operating Officer, Chicago Project for Violence Prevention
