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Task force pushes system mapping, assigned counsel pilot and data pulls to reduce pretrial jail stays
Summary
Tompkins County’s Criminal Justice/ATI Task Force agreed to map arrest-to-release decision points, pull booking data from the Black Creek system, and engage judges and the DA to explore pilot changes such as counsel at initial arraignments to shrink unsentenced jail population.
Tompkins County’s Criminal Justice/ATI Task Force spent its meeting focused on next steps to shrink the unsentenced jail population: system mapping to locate discretionary decision points, targeted data pulls from the Black Creek booking system, and outreach to judges and the district attorney’s office.
The Chair proposed creating a large flowchart during meetings that the county clerk could scan and preserve for iterative review. Members said mapping should identify where discretion exists (for example, whether an officer…
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