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Senate Confirms New SJI Board Member
On January 1, 2013, the U.S. Senate confirmed Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman to the SJI Board of Directors. Chief Judge Lippman was nominated by the President on May 24, 2012. He is currently Chief Judge of the State of New York and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, a position he has held since 2009. continue >
Texas Addresses Alternatives to Incarceration for Mentally Ill Offenders and Improves Outcomes
With an SJI Project grant in FY 2008 (SJI-08-N-072), the Texas Administrative Office of the Courts/Indigent Defense Commission examined how mentally-ill offenders entered the judicial system, and to what extent their cases were effectively adjudicated continue >
Human Trafficking and the State Courts Collaborative
During the 1st quarter meeting, the Board approved a $700,000 Strategic Initiatives Grant (SIG) to the Center for Public Policy Studies/The National Judicial College/Center for Court Innovation (CPPS/NJC/CCI) to form a Human Trafficking and the State Courts Collaborative focused on 4 strategic priorities: 1) increasing understanding and awareness about the challenges faced by state courts in dealing with cases involving trafficking victims and their families, and traffickers; 2) developing and testing state and local approaches for assessing and addressing the impact of human trafficking victims and defendants in the state courts; 3) enhancing state and local court capacity to improve court services affected by human trafficking-related cases processing demands; and 4) building effective national, state, and local partnerships for addressing the impacts of human trafficking case processing in the state courts. continue >
SJI Addresses Limited English Proficiency and the State Courts
During the December 10, 2012 meeting, the Board approved a $500,000 Strategic Initiatives Grant (SIG) to the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) to address limited English proficiency (LEP) issues. The NCSC's newly established Language Access Services Section is uniquely positioned to provide direct technical assistance to state courts on this critical issue. Most recently, the NCSC has worked with courts across New England, assessing their language access services and helping them find ways to share interpreters on a regional level. The NCSC also assisted the Tennessee Judiciary in conducting a summit of stakeholders to plan for providing language access services at no cost in civil cases throughout the state. Under a grant from CISCO, the NCSC is developing standards and best practices for remote video interpreting. continue >
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E-SJI News
- January 2013. Vol. 23, No. 4*new*
- December 2012. Vol. 23, No. 3
- November 2012. Vol. 23, No. 2
- October 2012. Vol. 23, No. 1
- September 2012. Vol. 22, No. 12
- August 2012. Vol. 22, No. 11
- July 2012. Vol. 22, No. 10
- June 2012. Vol. 22, No. 9
- May 2012. Vol. 22, No. 8
- April 2012. Vol. 22, No. 7
- March 2012. Vol. 22, No. 6
- February 2012. Vol. 22, No. 5
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Select Grant Reports
- Executive Session for State Court Leaders in the 21st Century
- A Case for Court Governance Principles
- Herding Lions: Shared Leadership of State Trial Courts
- Opinions as the Voice of the Court
- Courts are Conversations: An Argument for Increased Engagement by Court Leaders
- Juror and Jury Use of New Media: A Baseline Exploration
- Keeping Court Funded: Recommendations for How Courts Can Avoid the Budget Axe
- The Role of State Intermediate Appellate Courts: Principles for Adapting to Change
- Kansas Drug Court Feasibility Study
- Practitioners Guidebook on Immigration Issues in the State Courts
- Lycoming County, PA, Adult Treatment Court Evaluation
- Seattle Municipal Court Case Processing Improvement Project
- New Mexico Justice System Interpreter Resource Partnership
- Reengineering Rural Justice in Minnesota
- Minnesota Early Case Management/Early Neutral Evaluation Project (ECM/ENE)
- Juvenile & Family Immigration Bench Guide for State Trial Court Judges
- Implications of Padilla v. Kentucky on State Court Criminal Judges
- Yuma County, AZ Judicial Workload Study
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