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Justice Point reports pretrial caseloads, deflection progress and grant timing; urges data for future budgeting
Summary
Justice Point reported 106 pretrial cases, nine active recovery-court participants and ongoing deflection work; staff warned some grant funding timelines are tight and urged stronger data to justify future county funding.
Becky (Justice Point) updated the council on program caseloads and grant opportunities, saying: "We are at, a hundred and 6 on pretrial. We have 12 people on the wait list." She reported nine active recovery-court participants and one termination pending. On diversion, Becky said there were nine active diversions with two referrals pending and "one successful completion in the month of March."
Becky described staffing as a current strength: Justice Point is fully staffed and has a full-time pretrial diversion case manager (a second case manager is starting). She said that improved staffing should reduce the pretrial wait list over the coming month. She also said Justice Point is working with the district attorney's office on a protocol to ensure timely referral follow-up. "If they don't follow-up with us, we will let them know they haven't followed up on this referral," Becky said, describing a change to clarify responsibility between Justice Point and the DA's office.
On Treatment Alternatives and Diversion (TAD) and training, Becky said the group had not yet registered staff for the Wisconsin Association of Treatment Court Professionals conference because available TAD funding is reduced from prior years and registration deadlines were approaching. She said, "In my mind, All Rise is a better option for our ... the funding that we do have, which is in May."
On deflection and opioid settlement funds, Becky reported training and rollout progress: a March deflection training had 78 attendees and included Leilani Nino, the opioid-settlement grant administrator. Becky said Nino "really wants us to pursue future funding efforts. There is a lot of money left, A lot. So she wants us to spend. Spend. Spend." Deflection activities now include on‑scene navigators working with law enforcement, distribution plans for overdose-prevention bags, and outreach to sober events. Becky asked members for community-event ideas and donations to support outreach.
Becky also provided grant-status updates: a $100,000 Reaching Rural subaward was approved locally but was pending Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) review; Building Bridges site visits in New Mexico informed local planning; a $200,000 MAT (medication-assisted treatment) implementation application has a May 15 funding deadline; and the larger COSEP 2025 solicitation (approximately $1 million) was expected to reopen, with encouragement to apply. She said Justice Point was tracking multiple funding streams while continuing service delivery.
Becky closed by summarizing operational items — post-release transitional programming, navigator video links for inmates, and outreach needs — and asked the council for help identifying community partners and funding for sustained services.
