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Tompkins County task force opens work on jail alternatives, sets public input and data cleanup as priorities
Summary
The new Tompkins County Criminal Justice Alternatives to Incarceration task force read its charge and agreed to compile local programs, fix jail-data gaps and hold an early public input meeting while producing a report within six months.
Tompkins County’s newly convened Criminal Justice Alternatives to Incarceration (CJ ATI) task force opened its first meeting by reading a formal charge to solicit ideas from the public and professionals and report back within six months.
The charge, read aloud by Susie Cook, identifies outreach and analysis tasks for the group and requires at least one meeting devoted to public input and that most meetings be scheduled outside standard business hours. "The task force will engage the public, criminal justice professionals, county departments and other knowledgeable individuals to solicit ideas for further reducing the number of individuals incarcerated at the county jail," Cook said as she read the document to the group.
Deb Dietrich, executive director of OAR, urged the task force to schedule an early public input session so community ideas can inform the group’s research. "A public meeting early in the process will give us questions and information to chew on…
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