Minority Justice Implementation Committee Meeting
Scheduled on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 @ 10:00 AM
Current Items:
1. Access to Courts Recommendation #1: Jury Study
2. Criminal Justice Recommendation #6: Evidence-Based Sentencing
3. Civil Justice Recommendation #9: PASSPORT Protection Order
New Items:
1. Juvenile Recommendation #2 Detention Screening Tool
2. Juvenile Recommendation #3: Update on the Youth Cultural Awareness Program (YCAP) in Burleigh /Morton County
3. Self and Limited Scope Representation/ Demographic Background
Materials and Background Information:
1. Whiteacre, Testing the LSI-R for Racial/Ethnic Bias, 17 Criminal Justice Policy Review 3, 330 (2006); Bonta, Offender Risk Assessment: Guidelines for Selection and Use, 29 Criminal Justice and Behavior 4, 355 (2002)
2. 2012 Report of the North Dakota Domestic Violence Fatality Review Commission; Domestic Violence Inventory (Example); Modified PASSPORT Domestic Violence Protection Order, Temporary Protection Order
3. Commission to Study Racial and Ethnic Bias, Civil Recommendations, 2012; Zorza, Courts in the 21st Century: The Access to Justice Transformation, 49 Judge’s Journal 1 (2010); ABA, Unbundling Fact Sheet, 2011
US Census Bureau, Selected Characteristics of People at Specified Levels of Poverty in the Past 12 Months, American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates: North Dakota (2011); North Dakota State Data Center, Poverty Estimates for North Dakota 2009/ North Dakota’s Poverty Rate Unchanged, 27 Population Bulletin 2 (2011).