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Rock County moves EBDM work under Criminal Justice Coordinating Council after multi-year reform effort
Summary
County board heard a multi-agency report on the Evidence Based Decision Making initiative — covering pretrial screening, deferred prosecution, behavioral health information sharing and co-responder teams — and voted to dissolve the EBDM policy team and continue the work under the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.
Rock County supervisors voted to dissolve the county's Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM) policy team on March 13 after a presentation on the initiative's work to expand pretrial services, diversion and information-sharing between behavioral-health providers and law enforcement.
The county's Justice System Strategist, Elizabeth Pullman McQuillan, told the board the EBDM program began with technical assistance from the National Institute of Corrections and moved from planning into implementation, producing six change targets including pretrial assessment, diversion and behavioral information sharing.
The initiative matters because it reshapes how the local justice system handles people before trial and redirects some decisions from cash bail to risk-based assessment and supervised release. "Decisions are enhanced when informed by evidence-based knowledge," Pullman McQuillan said, describing the program's guiding principles.
Judge Carl Hansen, who chairs the pretrial work group, detailed the pretrial…
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