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Home My WebLink About03-10-2022 Community Justice Collaborating Council Minutes MEETING MINUTES COMMUNITY JUSTICE COLLABORATING COUNCIL March 10, 2022 8:00 AM St. Croix County Government Center -Room 1284 Government Center -1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, Wisconsin CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL Attendee OrganizationTitleStatusArrived Name Heather M. St. Croix Corporation CounselPresent AmosCounty David PetersonSt. Croix Chair, County BoardPresent County Dave OstnessSt. Croix Chair -HHSAbsent County Scott KnudsonSt. Croix SheriffPresent County Kristi SeversonSt. Croix Clerk of Circuit CourtPresent County Kathleen St. Croix Bar Association Representative, Present AvolesCountyVice Chair Curt St. Croix Faith Based RepresentativePresent ThomassenCounty Randy St. Croix Citizen MemberPresent Morrisette IICounty Mark RichertSt. Croix Police Chiefs' RepresentativePresent County Ken WittSt. Croix County AdministratorPresent County Bob FeidlerSt. Croix Chair -PP&JExcused County Agnes A. Ring St. Croix Citizen Member Present County Susan Gherty St. Croix Municipal Court Representative Present County Karl Anderson St. Croix District Attorney Absent County Bob Rohret St. Croix Director, HHS Present County Travis Satorius St. Croix Attorney Manager, State Public Absent County Defense Craig J. St. Croix Supervisor, Division of Excused Hooyman County Community Corrections Eilidh Pederson St. Croix Representative Medical Present County Community Scott Needham St. Croix Judge - Br. III -Chair Excused County APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Community Justice Collaborating Council Regular Meeting January 13, 2022 8:00 AM RESULT: ACCEPTED PUBLIC COMMENT BUSINESS ITEMS 1. Swearing In Ceremony for St. Croix County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Judge Waterman presents background of the new CASA program. Yvonne Larsen and Dawn Lane received the oath of CASA volunteer advocate to move forward in the Courtroom. Yvonne and Dawn both thanked the group and provided background as to what prompted them to be a part of the CASA program. RESULT: DISCUSSED 2. Appointment & Introduction of Eilidh Pederson as new CJCC Representative from the Medical Community Grew up in Duluth. Background in rural medicine. Masters in Public Health. WWH focus of serving the community and extending health and wellness beyond the walls of the hospital. RESULT: DISCUSSED 3. Introduction - New Treatment Court Coordinator & Assessor/Treatment Court Worker RESULT: DISCUSSED 4. Presentation from Professor Galli, UWRF - Treatment Court Outcomes Study Started with the Process Evaluation, now here on Outcomes presentation of the study. Met with former TC coordinator and prior participants. Pulled information from CORE and through semi-structured interviews. Developed an interview protocol to guide the interview. Did a random selection of case study folks. Would like to do a comparison group study with this group and perhaps, probation agents. Reducing prosecution costs? We have about a 50% graduation history which is consistent across the Nation. 60% were charged again. Participant interviews - fascinating. Included both folks successful and unsuccessful as part of the interviews. Folks not successful had good things to say. Point eight - what can be improved upon. Overall, most indicated "self worth" as a major factor of improvement. Working and reducing SUD highly positive. Many do relapse - this is acknowledged by participants - there are "failures." Peer Support Specialist...could some mentorship be baked into the program. Use as a graduated sanction as opposed to going to jail/Absolute sobriety: rison, great. Folks are high-risk on the COMPAS score - high risk and high need is consistent. Continue to thin about where referrals are coming from - ATR etc. Where else can we receive as opposed to DOC or in addition. Room for growth in the program. Knowing the role that mentorship does play is a key area for development. Anchors in the community are important - help with deterring future involvement. Quarterly basis or even every thirty days - get feedback from participants. Now these things are interesting but keep this consistent forward. Asking for questions. Agnes Ring - Judge Waterman - wondered where this came from. Emily Anderson, had more people but she believes is a false increase. What did he actually find in CORE. Waterman - population - the Team sits down and meets with the applicant. Not uncommon to see long histories and homeless, families have walked away, unhealthy relationships, this person has no chance of success... our Target Population is extremely difficult to provide success. Model is consistent with success. Multiple disciplines coming together to collaborate on this program. Waterman, five years of it. Credit to those for what they have done over the years RESULT: DISCUSSED 5. Introduction of New Behavioral Health Staff Shar - training through March 25th for Peer Support Specialist. Have a contracted entity in the community but we need applicants that have lived experience. DHS impressed with how we are using ARPA funds. Shar introduces staff. Started as a cohort - January 24th with aggressive training - DHS 34 crisis intervention training. Sheriff Department allowed CIT training last week. Area of service is what we are reporting to ARPA. Shar introduces folks and provides a rundown to the group. Rock County as site model. There are other LE models et al for co-responding with LE. Creating community safety plans directly in community with those at scene. Staff introduces themselves. RESULT: DISCUSSED 6. Juvenile & Child Justice System - CJCC Task Force Creation Judge Waterman introduces the initiative per Judge Needham. Judge Waterman provides perspective. We in the justice system may not be speaking the same language. Need for a task force is great improvement to bring stakeholders together to see what we need to improve and how to make that happen. Move to support creation of Sue Gherty and Bob Rohret. Moved forward as voted. Judge was asked who should be involved. Judge Waterman indicates he will be the point person. RESULT: APPROVED \[UNANIMOUS\] MOVER: Susan Gherty, Municipal Court Representative SECONDER: Bob Rohret, Director, HHS AYES: Heather M. Amos, David Peterson, Scott Knudson, Kristi Severson, Kathleen Avoles, Curt Thomassen, Randy Morrisette II, Mark Richert, Ken Witt, Agnes A. Ring, Susan Gherty, Bob Rohret, Eilidh Pederson ABSENT: Dave Ostness, Karl Anderson, Travis Satorius EXCUSED: Bob Feidler, Craig J. Hooyman, Scott Needham 7. Minnesota, Wisconsin Department of Corrections Release from Probation with Outstanding Restitution Judge Waterman discusses out of state residency and WI are different than MN for restitution and protecting victims rights. If probationer doesn't fulfill, their being discharged and victims has interests and rights in WI and there's a concern with MN is not. Is there a solution. Kate Avoles - is there an issue with amount or lump sum. Rebecca Schultz, indicates they're not responsible for collections of payments et al. Similar to MN. It is on the participants with monitoring from DOC. They do checks on cases. Seems WI has things in place. Kait Breuer indicates that in MN it resides in the Courts for restitution and not DOC. MN will not collect for us and we will not collect for them per Emily Anderson. Judge recommends referring to a subcommittee as it has come up on several cases - criminal justice subcommittee might be a good place to address the issue. Lisa Multhauf - would like to be in this conversation as she has many DJOCs on probation. Restitution is a big deal - Court costs, not as big of a deal. They need to pay to their ability. RESULT: DISCUSSED 8. CJCC Subcommittee Updates BH - met in January, reviewed membership and for most part it was a good group. Reviewed bylaws etc. Reviewed strategic plan for SCC and how subcommittee could align with that document. Aligning with ARPA initiatives. May use Opioid settlement dollars. We are currently collecting outcomes for ARPA initiatives. Criminal Justice Subcommittee - updates on PSA and the Court's use next week. Agnes Ring asks about Opoid settlement. Ken Witt presents that we receive about 100-200 thousand a year. No details as of now. Has cleared most of the approvals at the State level. How it is spent is up to the County Board. Once Ken has actual dollar amount they will determine how to reinvest it. RESULT: DISCUSSED REQUEST FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE ADJOURN DATE OF NEXT MEETING The next CJCC Council meeting is Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 8:00 a.m., at the Government Center - County Board Room.