Mike Schoenfeld, deputy executive director who oversees the Law Enforcement Bureau and Adult Probation and Parole (AP&P), said the department is creating a dedicated fugitive team and an intelligence operations center to improve coordination and free AP&P agents to focus on supervision and treatment.

Schoenfeld said the fugitive team is intended to target the small subset of supervised individuals who are true fugitives — those without a stable address or employment and who are difficult to locate. "We're trying to take that piece out, because we have, you know, the the, sometimes we're spending too much time on the smallest percentage of our caseload looking for that guy and not focusing on the people who really need our attention or really want our help," he said.

Schoenfeld described the upcoming command center as the "IRS" — an acronym he expanded as “intelligence, reentry, intervention, and safety” — a centralized hub to intake tips, analyze data and route actionable intelligence to investigators, prison operations and AP&P staff. "That's gonna be an intelligence, intelligence driven center... if you see something or you hear something and you just don't know what to do with it, that's the place you take it," he said.

The bureau plans to use federal partners, including the U.S. Marshals Service and existing task forces, to locate out-of-state fugitives when necessary. Schoenfeld said the new structure will also support interdicting narcotics and addressing violence inside facilities by increasing intelligence-led policing and coordination across divisions.

Leaders framed these changes as operational enhancements rather than statutory shifts. No budget totals or formal implementation timelines were provided beyond broad plans for the coming year.