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Douglas County CJCC adopts 2025–2027 strategic plan, sets data and communications committees
Summary
The Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council unanimously adopted a 2025–2027 strategic plan after a multi-month process of focus groups, surveys and a retreat; the council tasked staff to form a data-and-technology committee and a communications group to begin implementation.
The Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council unanimously adopted a 2025–2027 strategic plan on a motion by Patrick Schmitz, formalizing four priority areas and directing staff and member agencies to begin implementation work.
The plan, developed over roughly four months with support from consultant JMI and county staff, identifies four priority areas: improving system data metrics, assessing and strengthening pretrial processes, expanding a continuum of criminal-justice program options to reduce crime-contributing factors, and developing a strategic communications plan. Council members said the plan grew from focus groups, an online survey, a one-and-a-half-day retreat and a system-wide data template that highlighted both available data and gaps.
The plan matters, council leaders said, because it moves the CJCC from ad-hoc efforts toward defined goals, measurable objectives and assigned…
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