Minority Justice Implementation Committee Meeting

Scheduled on Thursday, May 17, 2018 @ 10:00 AM

1.Approval of February 8, 2018 Minutes (meeting materials p. 1-7)

2.Data Collection subcommittee report (meeting materials p. 8-11)

· State examples:

i.Minnesota

1.Minnesota Judicial Branch Policy 1002 (meeting materials p. 12)

ii. Florida

1.Article: A Florida Bill Would Make Criminal Justice Data More Transparent Than Ever (meeting materials p. 13-18)

2.Summary of FL SB 1392 (meeting materials p. 19-20)

iii. California

1.Open Justice: CA DOJ initiative that publishes criminal justice data - https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data

iv. Chart of multiple state responses to question regarding collection of race data (meeting materials p. 21)

· CSG Policy Framework: Justice Reinvestment in North Dakota (meeting materials p. 22-37)

i.Policy Option 8 and 9 regarding data collection (meeting materials p. 32-34)

3.Pretrial subcommittee report (meeting materials p. 38-39)

· March 15, 2018 Pretrial subcommittee agenda and meeting materials (meeting materials p. 40-75)

· New Jersey Courts: 2017 Report to the Governor and Legislature (meeting materials p. 76-112)

· Montana

i.SB 59 requires Office of Court Administrator to develop and administer a pretrial program for felony defendants

ii. MT Law and Justice Interim Committee Jan. 2018 Report – Implementation of Criminal Justice System Legislation (meeting materials p. 113-116)

iii. MT Criminal Justice Oversight Council March 2018 Meeting notes and audio (meeting materials p. 117-118)

iv. MT Judicial Branch Admin Policy: pretrial services pilot project allocation (meeting materials p. 119-121)

4.Education/outreach subcommittee report

· Update regarding AIHEC booth

5.Other Business

· Washington New General Rule 37 (meeting materials p. 122-126)

i.Expands ban on race-based peremptory challenges to require judges to deny a challenge if an “objective observer” could view race or ethnicity as a factor in the use of the strike