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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-13-2017 Community Justice Collaborating Council Minutes MEETING MINUTES COMMUNITY JUSTICE COLLABORATING COUNCIL April 13, 2017 8:00 AM County Board Room-Government Center County Board Room - 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, Wisconsin CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL Attendee Name Organization Title Status Arrived Fred Johnson St. Croix County Director, Health & Human Services Present Patrick Thompson St. Croix County County Administrator Present John Shilts St. Croix County Sheriff - Scott Knudson - Proxy Present Joan Sprain St. Croix County Citizen Member Present Roger Larson St. Croix County County Board Chair Present Andy Brinkman St. Croix County Chair of Public Protection & Judiciary Committee Excused Eric Lundell St. Croix County Presiding Judge Present Liesl Nelson St. Croix County Attorney Manager, Office of State Public Defender Present Scott L. Cox St. Croix County Corporation Counsel Present Kristi Severson St. Croix County Clerk of Circuit Court Present Kathleen Avoles St. Croix County Bar Association Representative Present Mark Lemke St. Croix County Supervisor, Department of Corrections Present Curt Thomassen St. Croix County Faith Based Representative Present Alison Page St. Croix County Medical Community Representative Present Randy St. Croix Citizen Member Present Morrisette II County Mark Richert St. Croix County Police Chiefs' Representative Present Michael Nieskes St. Croix County District Attorney Present Also present; Honorable Edward F. Vlack, Honorable R. Michael Waterman, Pam Bellrichard, Lisa Multhauf, Kimberly Kitzberger, Mike O'Keefe, Stephen T'Kach, Dan VanSomeren, Patty Schachtner, and Timothy Heckmann. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Community Justice Collaborating Council – Regular Meeting – March 9, 2017 8:00 AM Minutes were accepted as presented. RESULT: ACCEPTED PUBLIC COMMENT John Kucinski gave a statement about the Day Report Center. BUSINESS ITEMS 1. CJCC and Treatment Alternatives & Diversion (TAD) Budgets Mike O'Keefe, CJCC Coordinator, gave a report on the 2017 CJCC and Treatment Alternatives & Diversion Budgets through March 2017. He stated budget are within approved guidelines to date. RESULT: DISCUSSED 2. Treatment Alternatives & Diversion (TAD) Update Mike O'Keefe, CJCC Coordinator, gave an update on the Treatment Alternatives & Diversion (TAD) Grant project. The Adult Drug Court Program has filled their position as requested in the grant and will start a process moving paper data from past cases to an electronic version. The State of WI, Department of Justice, is mandating use of an electronic data collection system (CORE) as part of the Grant and all Treatment Alternatives & Diversion cases must be managed through this system. RESULT: DISCUSSED 3. CJCC Subcommittee Reports The chairs of each CJCC subcommittees that have recently met gave an update for each of their respective groups. Mike O'Keefe, CJCC Coordinator, gave an overall update on the scheduling status of each subcommittee. As part of the packet an update of each subcommittee's progress was presented. RESULT: DISCUSSED 4. NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATORS WEEK April 9 - 15, 2017 Stephen T'Kach, Director of Emergency Support Services announced that the Week of April 9-15, 2017 is National Telecommunicators Week. He discussed the difficult issues this group of employees face on a daily basis and the professionalism they display while serving the public. RESULT: DISCUSSED 5. Juvenile Justice Issues - Judicial Visit - Lincoln Hills & Copper Lake The Honorable Eric J. Lundell discussed his Judicial visit to the Lincoln School for Boys and the Copper Lake School for Girls in Irma, WI. He stated oversight for these institutions is through the WI Department of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Corrections, and recently they have experienced issues that has resulted in investigations by the FBI. Judge Lundell stated judges are required to make a visit to a prison or some type of facility as part of the Judicial Education so he chose these facilties to get a better idea of what is actually going on and what is being done to prevent any further issues of this type. Judge Lundell stated the staff were very forthright and the tour was very enlightening because he recently sent a young female to Copper Lake School for Girls and he was able to see firsthand what type of programming will be provided to her prior to release. RESULT: DISCUSSED 6. Proposed 17 year-old Legislation Discussion was held on the 17 year old issue of moving this group of individuals back to the juvenile justice system if legislation is proposed. Although there is no pending legislation proposed at this time this issue has been part of proposed legislation in the past. Currently it is part of the Wisconsin Counties Association's 2017-18 Legislative Agenda. RESULT: DISCUSSED 7. St. Croix County Jail Daily Population - 4-6-17 Mike O'Keefe, CJCC Coordinator presented a chart outlining a snapshot of the St. Croix County Jail population on April 6, 2017. District Attorney Michael Nieskes requested next time this type of information could be broken down even further to include categories of offenses and average length of time served in jail. RESULT: DISCUSSED 8. St. Croix County Day Report Center Update Dan VanSomeren, Jail Captain, discussed the current progress with the Day Report Center. He went over a number of statistics that are being generated by those individuals that are required to report. Captain VanSomeren stated they are trying to be accommodating to the needs of individual defendants and gave an example of how they worked with an individual that had medical and vehicle issues. RESULT: DISCUSSED 9. Northwoods Coalition Methamphetamine Summit - April 3, 2017 Mike O'Keefe, CJCC Coordinator, reported that he recently attended a Methamphetamine Summit in Trego, WI. This one day Summit was sponsored by the Northwoods Coalition and a number of speakers discussed the methamphetamine epidemic that exists in northwest Wisconsin, to include St. Croix County. A Methamphetamine Study completed by the WI Department of Justice and FBI was handed out to attendees and it outlined the high cost of treating methamphetamine addiction as well as the impact of drug related crime issues encountered by law enforcement officials and agencies. Other St. Croix County Employees in attendance; Ed Minser, Assistant District Attorney, Lisa Multhauf, Diversion Program Supervisor, Jenna Hines, Diversion Program Case Management Specialist, Kim Kitzberger, Adult Drug Coordinator, Julie Theisen, Substance Abuse Counselor, and Kristin DePrey, AODA Supervisor. RESULT: DISCUSSED REQUEST FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE ADJOURN The meeting was adjourned at 9:05 a.m.. DATE OF NEXT MEETING The next CJCC Council meeting is Thursday, May 11, 2017 8:00 a.m., Government Center - County Board Room. The next CJCC Executive Subcommittee meeting is Thursday, April 27, 2017, 12:00 p.m., Government Center - Administration Conference Room -1410.