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Commissioners press for clarity on victim services; street outreach warns of jail-to-street dynamics
Summary
Meeting participants asked which organizations will provide victim services and what victim-level data will be tracked; street outreach partners said jail events can trigger community shootings and urged tracking those events as part of intervention planning.
A participant who identified herself in the roll call as Natasha asked who the joint office is working with to provide victim services and which victim-level data will be tracked for participation and service uptake. Presenters said they are conducting site visits and meeting organizations to learn existing data practices before specifying data elements: "So we've been going on-site visits. We've been having individual meetings with organizations," a presenter said, adding the office will look for common data elements across providers.
Devon (transcribed also as Devin) Lane of the 901 Block Squad described a recent cluster of shootings he linked to jail events and urged tracking incidents that start in custody because affiliations can lead to retaliations on the street. "Over the last couple days, we had 1 of the guys from certain part of the city had jumped into jail. And this weekend, we had about 3 or 4 shootings. A couple of them was fatal," Lane said, arguing for better tracking and coordination with the sheriff's office and reentry partners.
Presenters said victim services already include the Women's Advocacy Center and county victim-services units and that they will continue convenings to align common data elements before requesting program-level data from partners.
