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Criminal Justice Coordinating Council adopts three-year strategic plan, sets data and communications priorities
Summary
The Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council presented a three-year strategic plan that prioritizes data collection and sharing, pretrial process improvement, expanded programming and a communications strategy; commissioners asked for an interim update before the annual June report.
Katie Fitzgerald, criminal justice coordinator for Douglas County, presented the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council's (CJCC) 2025—27 strategic plan to the Board of Douglas County Commissioners on April 2. The plan sets four priorities: enhancing system data metrics, assessing and strengthening the pretrial phase, expanding criminal-justice program options and developing a strategic communications plan.
The CJCC developed the plan with consultants from the Justice Management Institute (JMI) after six discipline-specific focus groups, an online survey with 96 respondents and analysis of system-level operational data. Fitzgerald said JMI produced a 75-page briefing and the council held a 1—2-day planning retreat to identify priorities. "We started this process with Christie and Amy from JMI," Fitzgerald said, noting the consultant role in guiding the timeline.
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