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• 8/04: Call with the KCJRC Reentry Subcommittee to provide an update on JRI plans and to solicit feedback on Housing/Employment Assessment Plans.
• 8/04: Call with Victim Services Director (KDOC) and Director of Victim Services (Attorney General’s Office) to further discuss Wichita domestic violence, the Batterer’s Intervention Program, and challenges and areas for improvement.
• 8/05: Call with Statewide Supportive Housing Family, Services Specialist (KDOC) to understand current housing procedures/resources, explore challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
• 8/5: Call with Director of Health Care Compliance (KDOC) and the doctor who monitors mental health care in KDOC to understand current behavioral health procedures/resources and explore challenges and recommendations for improvement.
• 8/5: Call with the KCJRC Diversion/Supervision/Specialty Courts/Specialty Prisons Subcommittee to hear updates on progress to date and to provide an update on the JRI assessment.
• 8/6: Call with Legislative Liaison (Governor’s Office) to discuss a communications plan for press release and to assess the political landscape from the governor’s office.
• 8/7: Call with the KCJRC Proportionality/Guidelines Subcommittee to hear updates on progress to date and to provide an update on the JRI assessment.
• 8/7: Call with the KCJRC Supervision Working Group to hear updates on progress to date and to provide an update on the JRI assessment.
• 8/7: Call with District Attorney (Sedgwick County & Chair, KCJRC) to provide updates on assessment activities, solicit feedback on key prosecutors to connect with, and solicit thoughts on domestic violence issues in Wichita and across the state.
• 8/10: Call with Director of Victim Services (Attorney General’s Office) to further discuss the victim services landscape in Kansas, drivers of domestic violence, and challenges related to providing support to victims of crime in Wichita.
• 8/10: Call with Executive Director (Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition) and Continuum of Care Program Director (Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition) to understand current housing procedures and resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/10: Call with the full KCJRC to hear updates on subcommittee progress, next steps for the commission, and to provide a brief update on JRI assessment activities.
• 8/10: Call with Public Service Executive (Kansas Department of Commerce) and Program Manager & Alternative Workforce Specialist (Kansas Department of Commerce) to understand the current education/employment landscape and resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/11: Call with Programs Director (KDOC) to understand current KDOC programming, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/11: Call with Sheriff (Ford County Sheriff and Second Vice President of the Kansas Sheriff’s Association) to understand current behavioral health/law enforcement procedures and strategies being employed statewide to prevent violent crime.
• 8/11: Call with Commissioner of Behavioral Health Sciences (KDADS), SUD/Problem Gambling Project Coordinator (KDADS) and Mental Health Program Manager (KDADS) to understand current behavioral health/law enforcement procedures and strategies being employed statewide to prevent violent crime.
• 8/12: Call with Executive Director of Programs & Risk Reduction (KDOC) and Education Director (KDOC) to continue discussions and understand current KDOC contracts for higher education, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/12: Call with the KCJRC Supervision Working Group to hear updates on progress to date and to provide an update on the JRI assessment.
• 8/13: Call with Andi Allen (Director, Northern Parole, KDOC) to discuss parole supervision patterns and trends, challenges, and recent changes to practice with the goal of informing JRI in Kansas.
• 8/13: Call with the KCJRC Race and Criminal Justice System Subcommittee to hear updates on subcommittee progress.
• 8/13: Call with Director of Client Services (Wichita Family Crisis Center) to discuss the victim services landscape in Kansas, drivers of DV, and challenges related to providing support to victims of crime in Wichita.
• 8/14: Call with Deputy Secretary of Juvenile/Adult Community-Based Services (KDOC), Community Corrections Director (KDOC), and Executive Director of Programs & Risk Reduction (KDOC) to discuss patterns, trends, and challenges in community supervision from their perspectives, including their experiences with the process of reform over the past year as well as any recent changes to community supervision.
• 8/17: Call with Executive Director (StepStone), and Program Director (StepStone) to discuss the victim services landscape in Kansas, drivers of DV, and challenges related to providing support to victims of crime.
• 8/17: Call with Kansas Supportive Housing for Offenders Program Coordinator (KDOC) to understand current housing procedures and resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/17: Call with President and CEO (Workforce Alliance) and Vice President & Chief Business Development Officer (Workforce Alliance) to understand local reentry employment efforts and challenges in Sedgwick county.
• 8/17: Call with Prison Review Board Chair (KDOC) to discuss patterns, trends, and challenges in parole supervision, including experiences with the process of reform over the past year as well as changes to community supervision since March 2020 to inform the Kansas JRI project.
• 8/17: Call with President (KS Consortium for Correctional Higher Education and Associate Dean/Director of Business Education Training Analysis [BETA Butler] Community College) to understand the current education/employment landscape and programming, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/18: Call with Administrator (Kansas Governor’s Grant Program), Attorney (Kansas Governor’s Grant Program), and Director of Programs (Kansas Governor’s Grant Program) to understand the current landscape of victim service providers in Kansas, how the state supports victims through its VOCA/VAWA funding, and how the state prioritizes funding for vulnerable victim populations.
• 8/18: Call with Director (Research and Behavioral Analytics, KDOC), Victims Services Director (KDOC), Director of Reentry Services (KDOC), Programs Director (KDOC), and Parole Policy and Staff Development (KDOC) to discuss KDOC administrative practices and policies that impact reentry, community supervision, and continuous quality improvement with the goal of informing JRI in Kansas.
• 8/18: Call with Executive Director (Kansas Coalition against Sexual Violence), Legal and Policy Director (Kansas Coalition against Sexual Violence), and Kansas Coalition against Sexual Violence to understand the current landscape of victims service providers in Kansas, vulnerable victim populations, and challenges that victim service providers are seeing on the ground as they support survivors.
• 8/19: Call with Topeka Housing Specialist (KDOC), Kansas City Housing Specialist (KDOC), and Wichita Housing Specialist (KDOC) to understand current housing procedures and resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/19: Call with Community Corrections Directors from the “Big Six” Supervising Districts— Sedgwick County, Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Shawnee County, Saline County, and Reno County—to discuss patterns and trends, challenges in court services community supervision, as well as recent changes to practice with the goal of informing JRI in Kansas.
• 8/19: Call with Court Services Chiefs from the “Big Six” Supervising Districts—Sedgwick County, Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Shawnee County, Saline County, and Reno County—to discuss patterns and trends, challenges in court services community supervision, as well as recent changes to practice with the goal of informing JRI in Kansas.
• 8/20: Call with Director (Topeka Housing Authority) to understand current housing procedures and resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/20: Call with Secretary (KDOC) to understand current KDOC challenges, and potential recommendations for improvement.
• 8/20: Call with Medicaid Inspector General (Kansas Department of Health and Environment) to understand the current behavioral health procedures and resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/20: Call with Director of Trial Court Programs (Office of Judicial Administration [OJA]) and Court Services Specialist (OJA) to discuss patterns, trends, and challenges in court services supervision from their perspectives, including their experiences with the process of reform over the past year as well as the impact of recent practice and policy changes on community supervision.
• 8/20: Call with Chief Court Services Officer (2nd Judicial District) to discuss Court Supervision patterns and trends, challenges, and recent changes to practice with the goal of informing JRI in Kansas.
• 8/20: Call with the KCJRC Diversion Working Group to hear updates on progress to date.
• 8/21: Call with Kansas Workforce One to understand current efforts to increase the economic mobility of the justice-involved population in western Kansas.
• 8/21: Call with Director (Central Kansas Mental Health Center) to understand current housing procedures and resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/24: Call with Representative (R) (District 122) to discuss JRI updates and to assess the political landscape.
• 8/24: Call with KS Courts to discuss the availability of community programming across the state, how program availability may impact judicial decisions, successes and failures of specialty courts, how judges may handle domestic violence issues, recommendations to improve consistency statewide and the greatest needs regarding mental health and substance use issues in the state.
• 8/24: Call with Senior Associate Director for Adult Education (Kansas Board of Regents) to understand current Kansas efforts for higher education, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/24: Call with Senator (R) (District 24) to discuss JRI updates and to assess the political landscape.
• 8/24: Call with Chief (Chief of the Hesston Police Department and President, KS Association of Chiefs of Police) to understand current behavioral health/law enforcement procedures and strategies being employed statewide to prevent violent crime, with the hopes of developing recommendations for improvement.
• 8/24: Call with KDADS/Department of Children and Families to discuss ways for improving access to education and employment opportunities by expanding access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits.
• 8/25: Call with Offender Workforce Development Specialist Coordinator (Workforce Alliance) to understand current efforts and challenges to increasing the economic mobility of the justice-involved population in Kansas.
• 8/26: Call with the KCJRC Supervision Working Group to hear updates on progress to date and to provide an update on the JRI assessment.
• 8/26: Call with Chief Executive Officer (Valeo Behavioral Health Care) to understand current behavioral health procedures/resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/26: Call with Public Member of the Sentencing Commission and former Republican in the legislature to discuss JRI updates and to assess the political landscape.
• 8/27: Call with Assistant County Administrator (Douglas County) and Criminal Justice Coordinator (Douglas County) to understand current housing procedures and resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/27: Call with Assistant Revisor of Statutes (Legislature of the State of Kansas) to provide technical assistance regarding legislative strategies other states have used as part of JRI.
• 8/27: Call with Sheriff (President, Kansas Sheriff’s Association) to understand current behavioral health/law enforcement procedures and strategies being employed statewide to prevent violent crime, with the hopes of developing recommendations for improvement.
• 8/27: Call with Housing Specialist (Horizons Mental Health Center) to understand current housing procedures and resources, explore challenges, and develop recommendations for improvement.
• 8/28: Call with Executive Director (Kansas Board of Cosmetology) and Assistant Director (Kansas Board of Cosmetology) to discuss JRI, learn about current cosmetology licensing procedures with regards to considering people with criminal convictions and changes that have occurred to procedures as a result of state statutes.
• 8/28: Call with DCF staff to discuss SNAP and TANF benefits in Kansas including service provision and the implementation of the felony ban.
• 8/28: Call with KDOC Parole Supervisors in the “Big Six” Supervising Districts—Sedgwick County, Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Shawnee County, Saline County, and Reno County—to discuss supervision challenges and strategies to improve success on supervision with the goal of informing JRI in Kansas.
In August, CSG Justice Center research staff analyzed prison, probation, and parole data from KDOC, focusing on activity and trends for drug offenses, nonviolent offenses, and supervision condition violations. Research staff analyzed probation revocation hearing and sentencing data from the Kansas Sentencing Commission, assisted with edits to the Overview Report, and developed slides and reports summarizing the results of data analysis conducted to date.
2020-08-03 Analysis of Kansas Sentencing Commission data - probation revocation hearings and felony sentences.
2020-08-04 Review and respond to comments and edits to the Overview Report and provide additional numbers as needed
2020-08-05 Analysis of Kansas Department of Corrections data - community corrections terminations, parole discharges, and prison admissions.
2020-08-10 Analysis of Kansas Department of Corrections data - community corrections terminations, prison admissions and releases, and program participation.
2020-08-12 Compile published data on crime and prison admissions for CY2020 to-date and summarize current trends compared to the first 6 months of 2019.
2020-08-13 Create slides summarizing analysis relevant to potential policy recommendations
2020-08-17 Analysis of Kansas Department of Corrections data - community corrections terminations, population snapshot, and sanctions; prison program participation and sentence length.
2020-08-19 Create slides summarizing published numbers on SB123 drug treatment sentences in Kansas
2020-08-19 Analysis of Kansas Sentencing Commission data - probation revocation hearings and felony sentences.
2020-08-24 Analysis of Kansas Department of Corrections data - sentence details and risk levels for prison admissions.
2020-08-25 Analysis of Kansas Sentencing Commission data - felony probation and jail sentences.
2020-08-26 Calculate estimated incarceration costs for specific groups, based on analysis of prison data and published cost figures.
2020-08-27 Create slides summarizing analysis of prison admissions for drug offenses
2020-08-31 Analysis of Kansas Sentencing Commission data - felony probation and jail sentences; Kansas Department of Corrections data - prison admissions.
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