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Justice Resource Center work group advances outreach, court appearance resources and reentry data review
Summary
Buncombe County’s community engagement work group reported outreach plans to gather input from people recently detained, reviewed jail and JRC data for trends tied to housing and recidivism, and discussed the AOC statewide court appearance project as a model for local court advocacy support.
Brett Bailey, staff support for the community engagement work group, updated the meeting on several outreach and data initiatives aimed at improving reentry outcomes and connecting people leaving detention to services.
Why it matters: the work group’s outreach and data analysis target recidivism drivers—housing, language access, and time‑sensitive connections to services—and may inform changes to how information is provided to people while detained and after release.
Bailey said the group is scheduling listening sessions with people recently…
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