Member List - Subcommittee on Courts and Effective Justice Strategies
Membership List
Member List - Subcommittee on Funding Components
Member List - Subcommittee on Justice System Funding, Organization and Strategies
Scope
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The Special Committee is directed to study funding of the criminal justice system and strategies to adequately and sustainably fund the criminal justice system. The study shall include consideration of funding for prosecutors, defense attorneys, and courts and collection of fees and surcharges imposed on criminal defendants.
Final Report to the Joint Legislative Council - May 4, 2011 Meeting
Letter Distributed to Committee Members (February 2011)
January 10, 2011 - Subcommittee on Justice System Funding, Organization, and Strategies - CANCELLED [ Notice ]
January 3, 2011 - Subcommittee on Courts and Effective Justice Strategies [ Notice ]
December 17, 2010 - Subcommittee on Funding Components [ Notice ]
- PowerPoint Presentation, by Mike Thompson, Executive Director, and Marc Pelka, Policy Analyst, Council of State Governments Justice Center.
- Letter, from Winn Collins, President, Wisconsin District Attorneys Association (November 12, 2010).
- Memo No. 3, Draft Final Report (December 1, 2010).
- Memo No. 4, Potential Committee Recommendations (December 16, 2010).
- Draft Letter, to Representative Jeff Fitzgerald, Assembly Speaker-Elect and Senator Michael Ellis, Senate President-Elect (November 23, 2010).
November 17, 2010 - CANCELLED [ Agenda | Notice ]
November 8, 2010 - Subcommittee on Courts and Effective Justice Strategies [ Notice ]
- Speech, State of the Judiciary Address, given by Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson (October 20, 2010).
- Summary, Effective Justice Strategies Research Project conducted by the Planning and Policy Advisory Committee.
- Concept Paper, Setting the Framework for a Wisconsin Community Justice Act, prepared by the Committee on Effective Strategies for Community Justice (June 2008).
- Memorandum, prepared by Committee Member Ben Kempinen, on Discussion Topics.
- Report, WSIPP’s Benefit-Cost Tool for States: Examining Policy Options in Sentencing and Corrections, prepared by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy.
October 25, 2010 - Subcommittee on Justice System Funding, Organization, and Strategies [ Notice ]
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- Spreadsheet Regarding Arrests in Wisconsin from 1990-2009.
- Table, Office of Justice Assistance Table, Sales and Use Tax Exemption Devices Summary
- Summary Report, 2009 Surcharge Revenue Summary Report (January 2009 through December 2009).
- Report, Agency Budget Request 2011-2013 Biennium, prepared by the State of Wisconsin, Supreme Court (October 1, 2010).
- Tables, Wisconsin Circuit Court Fee, Fine, and Surcharge.
October 22, 2010 - Subcommittee on Funding Components [ Notice ]
October 21, 2010 - Subcommittee on Courts and Effective Justice Strategies [ Notice ]
- Memo No. 1, Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties (September 20, 2010).
- Enclosure, Section 13.525, Stats.
- Remarks, by Patti Seger, Executive Director, Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
- Handout, The State of Domestic Violence Victim Services in Wisconsin, submitted by Patti Seger.
- Report, Analyses & Policy Options to Reduce Spending on Corrections and Increase Public Safety, submitted by the Council of State Governments, Justice Center (May 2009).
- PowerPoint Presentation, by Daniel Hall, Vice President, Court Consulting Services, National Center for State Courts.
- Remarks, John Keckhaver, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
- Remarks, by John Voelker, Director of State Courts.
- Report 07-9, An Evaluation: Allocation of Prosecutor Positions, Department of Administration, Legislative Audit Bureau (July 2007). (Committee members only.
- Letter Report, Settlement and Judgment Awards, Legislative Audit Bureau (April 2010.) (Committee members only.)
- Informational Paper 81, Wisconsin Court System, Legislative Fiscal Bureau (January, 2009). (Members only.)
- Informational Paper 82, State Criminal Justice Functions, Legislative Fiscal Bureau (January, 2009). (Committee members only.)
- Paper #122, Justice Information System Surcharge – Civil Legal Services for the Indigent (DOA – Office of Justice Assistance) (May 26, 2009).
- Paper #310, Prosecutorial Staffing (District Attorneys) (May 19, 2009).
- Paper #515, Increase Crime Laboratories and Drug Law Enforcement Surcharge (Justice) (May 26, 2009).
- Paper #516, Penalty Surcharge and Drug Offender Diversion Surcharge (DOA – Office of Justice Assistance, Corrections – Adult Corrections, Justice, Public Defender, and Public Instruction) (May 26, 2009).
- Presentation by Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, State of Wisconsin Supreme Court.
- PowerPoint presentation by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.
- Memo, Crisis in the State Prosecution Program, from David Feiss, President, Association of State Prosecutors.
- Flow, Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, 1967. This revision, a result of the Symposium on the 30th Anniversary of the President’s Commission, was prepared by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 1997.
- Remarks, prepared by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, Department of Justice.
- Final Report, Subcommittee on Court Financing, Planning and Policy Advisory Committee of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (February 2004), submitted at the request of Senator Lena Taylor, Chair of the Special Committee.
- Memo, Department of Justice Organization and Operations, submitted by Mark Rinehart, Department of Justice Legislative Liaison (August 30, 2010).
- PowerPoint presentation by David Steingraber, OJA Executive Director, Office of Justice Assistance.
- Memorandum, to the members of the Joint Committee on Finance, from Senator Mark Miller and Representative Mark Pocan, State Public Defender Quarterly Report (August 11, 2010).
- Staff Brief 10-02, Funding of State Criminal Justice Functions (August 19, 2010).