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Idaho corrections director urges ongoing funding for Recidiviz case-management tools
Summary
Agency officials and committee members discussed ongoing funding for Recidiviz, a nonprofit data platform the Idaho Department of Correction says streamlines case management and helps target supervision resources; lawmakers asked for evidence of effectiveness and details on data control and philanthropic matching.
The Idaho Department of Correction asked the Joint Finance Preparations Committee on Feb. 4 to approve ongoing general-fund support to continue work with Recidiviz, a nonprofit data and analytics partner the agency says helps automate case triage and produce officer- and population-level outcome data.
Director Josh Tewalt told the panel the Recidiviz partnership “is probably the most transformative partnership we've entered into as an agency in my entire tenure there,” and described the product as a nonprofit service that aggregates data across legacy systems to present case managers with prioritized tasks and outcome comparisons across officers and jurisdictions.
Noah Peterson, budget and policy analyst for the Legislative Services Office, summarized the Management Services Division’s budget request and identified a line item tied to…
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