Fiscal Note
No appropriation is required.
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Resolution in support of on-going efforts by the Police Chief and City Attorney’s Office to create and execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Dane County District Attorney’s Office and Dane County Human Services in regards to Dane County’s “Community Restorative Court” (CRC) initiative.
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WHEREAS, since 2009, Dane County has been addressing racial disparities in the criminal justice system--utilizing the past work of the Dane County Task Force on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System (2009) and the Dane County Juvenile Justice Disproportionate Minority Contact Solutions Workgroup Report (2009) as well as other critical community reports;
WHEREAS, in November 2013, Dane County Supervisors Stubbs, Levin, Hotchkiss and Sergeant successfully introduced an amendment to the 2014 Dane County Executive Budget creating and funding a 1.0 FTE Community Service Coordinator position in the Department of Human Services budget for purposes of developing a pilot community court in one Dane County neighborhood to address the high involvement of youth and young adults (17-25) in the criminal justice system using restorative principles and practices;
WHEREAS, in early 2014, staff from Dane County Human Services reached out to MPD South District command staff for purposes of partnering and collaborating on this pilot “Community Restorative Court ” (CRC) initiative;
WHEREAS, during the summer and fall of 2014, South District Neighborhood Officer Mike Alvarez was assigned by command to assist Dane County Human Services in the interviewing and screening of several candidates for the CRC Community Services Coordinator position which was filled in October 2014 and announced by County Executive Joe Parisi during a press conference at the Villager Mall in South Madison;
WHEREAS, restorative justice is broadly defined as a community based form of justice that seeks to repair the harm caused by crime on a n...
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