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First, the committee agreed to forward a recommendation that county administration draft a letter of support for Attic Correctional Services’ effort to reinstitute a housing-help program. County staff described Attic’s prior 2022 grant that helped 12 clients obtain and retain housing; the letter would be used by Attic in applications to state or other grant funders. A motion to direct county administration to draft the letter was made and seconded; the committee chair called the question and members answered “Aye.” The committee did not record a roll-call tally in the public transcript; staff said the item would proceed to the County Board for consideration.

Second, the committee voted to forward a letter of support to state officials for funding to locate a medical-clearance function at North Central Healthcare. County staff and representatives from North Central Healthcare said locating medical-clearance resources on-site would reduce transports to emergency departments and speed connection to mental-health services. The Sheriff’s Office had drafted a letter of support from law enforcement perspective; North Central Healthcare said it is preparing a dollar amount for legislative requests. A motion to forward a letter to the state was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.

What the committee recorded about each item:
- Attic Correctional Services: staff said Attic had a 2022 grant that helped 12 clients obtain housing and that the program had shown success. The committee directed county administration to draft a letter of support to accompany Attic’s grant applications and forwarded the recommendation to the County Board.
- North Central Healthcare: staff described medical clearance as an administrative step before inpatient psychiatric admission and said locating medical clearance at North Central Healthcare could reduce wait times in emergency departments and relieve law-enforcement resource burdens. Committee members voted to forward a letter of support to the County Board that would be used to request state funding.

No dollar amounts or specific state-funding program identifiers were specified in the public transcript; staff said North Central Healthcare is assembling a dollar request for legislators. Both motions were forwarded to the County Board; the County Board will consider drafting and sending the letters, per the committee’s direction.
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Krista Jensen, on behalf of Social Services, said the county’s role is to serve youth who meet the statutory definition of habitual truancy and to coordinate and help fund school-based diversion programs. The county funds contracted slots for diversion and participates in attendance correction committees with schools and community partners.

Why it matters: Social Services officials said earlier and more-coordinated interventions reduce formal court filings and better address underlying causes of chronic absence.

What the county reported:
- Legal framework: Marathon County staff cited Wisconsin Statute Chapter 118 (attendance and truancy) as the statutory basis for required truancy plans and panels and for the definition of habitual truancy (10 or more unexcused days in a semester). Schools must document outreach and interventions before referring a youth for court consideration.
- Funding and service model: Social Services uses a mix of county levy and state grant funding. The Department of Children and Families Community Intervention Program (CIP) grant partially funds diversion work; county levy covers the majority of local diversion spending. Social Services contracts with Mirror Image for truancy diversion slots.
- Slots and usage: In 2024 Mirror Image served 49 unduplicated students; the county contracted for 25 slots at that time (slots indicate capacity at a given time). After budgeting changes in 2024 the county expanded slots across several schools; specific slot counts per school were provided (examples: John Muir 6 slots; DC Everest 6; Junior high combined 8).
- Court referrals and petitions: Truancy citation court referrals have fallen from 109 cases in 2019 to 45 in 2024; social-services petitions for habitual truancy were 15 in 2022, 2 in 2023 and 12 in 2024 (staff said COVID-era reporting affected earlier years).

Speakers described local practice: schools convene Attendance Correction Committees (ACC) that include school staff, social services and community partners to try interventions before court referrals. Social Services staff said interventions vary by case and may include home outreach, referrals to mental-health or AODA services, transportation supports and family engagement. For younger children, Social Services said adults can be held accountable under contributing-to-truancy provisions; older students (up to age 18) are covered by compulsory-attendance rules.

Next steps and county context: Social Services asked the committee to consider how much county levy to sustain slots and noted the state grant share is limited. County Administrator Lance urged committee members to consider advocacy at the state level during the upcoming budget cycle if they want greater state funding for court and justice functions.

No formal committee action was taken during the presentation. The department provided the committee a memo with further statutory citations and program details.","Marathon County Social Services summarized statutory duties, local diversion slots and recent caseload figures, saying attendance correction committees and contracted diversion slots reduced court referrals since 2019.",{"_33":87,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":88,"_41":89,"_43":90,"_45":91,"_47":92,"_49":93,"_51":94,"_53":95,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":96,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":97,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":56,"_73":56},6287711,"Marathon County presents first justice-system key performance indicators; officials flag data limits and next steps",5842,721000,6563000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2547253-b8f5cf257b3586eace78b4bfe318bf5c&start=721&end=6563","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2547253-b8f5cf257b3586eace78b4bfe318bf5c/thumbnail_721000.jpg","/articles/6287711/Marathon-County/Wisconsin/Marathon-County-presents-first-justice-system-key-performance-indicators-officials-flag-data-limits-and-next-steps","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6287711-1f1c875ee3f86e04a67b494d7cc6ff3c/orig.mp4?Expires=1776114960&Signature=QP-BaGEAxXDrVQzP4gfie5qS1m4~6YdY9rW0lE47HASgRImyYzuuEzdugxHvN7vJWwGZ2lX0SGG8bq5OquqbPVCbVhC~Xr2sn3O9BYK-6~zFgDqpGBznOdZ8KV6aBFO8-eAy8VorxbbeFqLIBWdUZI1lwW8336921KZQ2Q7D65N7U1N7vcklMPQlT~rpZmvVKt3FmKMnxNB8mlEBUvp0NdJ0uZFZixzNP-F72rIQtsbgrNEs94zCYcA9hd7Ae6nK9XMq8l761KSXexxwI49~WtOjyn2AAWd9FwM-z3I-ZZV8PhiAv~RfePoNbbHj4Nrh9R7Yfda~fuO~8oQdgx73rg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Marathon County officials on March 7 presented the county’s first consolidated key performance indicator reports for justice-system programs, showing 2024 service volumes and outcomes across diversion, pretrial supervision, treatment and testing programs.

County Administrator Lance said the KPI effort centralizes data from Attic Correctional Services and other partners so the board and public can see “how much we do, how well we do it and whether anyone is better off.” He framed the work as a starting point, not a finished product.

The reports pull information that previously lived in multiple systems and spreadsheets into Power BI dashboards that update as case managers enter data. Michael Schultz, Marathon County’s data officer, described technical work to standardize hundreds of event codes, build automated reports and push weekly case-manager summaries. Laura Yari, the county’s justice systems coordinator, described program-level findings and operational context for each KPI.

“Now that we’re able to pull information through lots and lots of coding, that black box … is just pages and pages of me manually programming what we need to pull out of these systems,” Schultz said. He said case managers now receive an automated Monday report that flags client files with no activity for 30 days.

Why it matters: County leaders said the KPI reports give the public and the County Board clearer visibility into programs the county funds or helps operate, and they flagged the reports’ current limits and the questions they raise about program design and referrals.

Key program findings presented (2024 data):
- Diversion (deferred prosecution/deferred entry of judgment): one full-time case manager’s workload showed 81 admits and 133 served (carryovers included); a separate case load showed 53 admits and 82 served, with a notably lower success rate attributed in part to staff turnover. The report separates deferred prosecution (pre-charge) from deferred entry of judgment (post-charge plea-based agreements).
- Domestic-violence diversion: 71 admitted, 92 served; extensions occurred in 14.8% of cases because placement into the closed-group curriculum can delay completion.
- OAR/Driver’s-license programs (OAR = operating after revocation): 28 admitted, 46 served; 15 license reinstatements were recorded (9 of those were reinstated during the reporting period).
- SSTOP (pretrial intervention for repeated OWI offenders): higher completion rates than historical baselines; in-program recidivism for new OWI charges was 6.76% in the presented sample.
- Case Management & Treatment Services (CMTS) — high-risk, high-need outpatient services: 132 admitted, 188 served; dosage hours (face-to-face treatment) were substantial but the pass/attendance-based success metric was lower than county goals.
- Pretrial (Public Safety Assessment pilot): 1,504 PSA assessments completed in 2024; the program assigns levels 1–4 and routes level 2–4 to pretrial services. Counts of reoffenses and failures to appear were presented by PSA level; staff said DOJ evaluation of the local implementation is pending.
- Day Report (drug testing): 208 admitted, 301 served in 2024; 7,498 face-to-face contacts scheduled and 1,727 failed-to-report incidents; the program offers breath, urine and ETG urine testing and runs daily including holidays.

Speakers and roles in the presentation were limited to county staff and Attic Correctional Services staff who worked on data standardization: County Administrator Lance; Laura Yari, Justice Systems Coordinator; Michael Schultz, Data Officer; representatives from Attic Correctional Services; and Gary Olson from North Central Healthcare (present for a separate agenda item). The District Attorney’s office and Department of Corrections were referenced as referral sources for some programs.

Officials stressed limits and next steps. Lance said the KPI data are \"accurate, not precise,\" noting human-data entry errors and inconsistencies in legacy systems. Schultz said the team reduced more than 600 event codes to about 250 standardized codes and produced automated reports; he and Laura said they will continue training case managers and refining reports for month-by-month filtering and program-specific breakdowns. County staff also plan to separate referral streams (for example, Department of Corrections referrals versus treatment-court referrals) to identify differences in outcomes and potential program adjustments.

County context: presenters emphasized that many justice services are partnerships across state, county and contracted providers. Several speakers noted the limits of county authority (for example, bond and pretrial conditions are judicial decisions) and that some program funding is shared with state agencies such as the Department of Corrections.

The committee did not take formal action on the KPI presentation; staff said they will continue building the dashboards and bring refinements to future committee meetings.","County administrators and contracted provider Attic Correctional Services presented 2024 key performance indicators (KPIs) for multiple justice programs, saying the new reports improve transparency but are \"accurate, not precise\" and will prompt further questions and process changes.","actionData","errors"]

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