Welcome to the Criminal Justice Advisory Board
Mission Statement
To enable criminal justice agencies and related agencies to work together to improve the quality of life within Berks County.
Goals
- Develop a systematic approach to respond to and to reduce violent crime and drug-related crime, with a focus on young adult gun violence.
- Increase juvenile programming for youth violence and truancy.
- Develop evidence-based approaches, including the Stepping Up initiative, which respond to the prevention, intervention, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders.
- Utilize the Data Driven Justice Initiative to review and analyze aggregate data for each intercept and profile/model consumption across all systems.
- Develop a system-wide, evidence-based approach to sentencing, supervision, and treatment.
- Reduce recidivism and jail overcrowding, and increase public safety using cost effective and efficient reentry initiatives.
- Support the implementation and enhancement of criminal justice technology initiatives.
Related Links
State
National
Meetings
General Membership - every other month
Steering Committee - monthly
Members
- TASC
- Safe Berks
- ConnectionsWork
- Council on Chemical Abuse
- Berks County Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities Administrator
- Berks County Adult and Juvenile Probation Chief
- Berks County Chief Public Defender
- Berks County District Attorney, Detective, Victim/Witness Supervisor
- County of Berks Sheriff
- Berks County Jail System
- Berks County Chiefs of Police Association
- Berks County Clerk of Courts
- Berks County Commissioner & Berks County Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- City of Reading Mayor & Chief of Police
- Pennsylvania State Police
- Pennsylvania State Board of Probation/Parole
- Berks County Court of Common Pleas Judges, Magisterial District Court Judges, District Court Administrator, Criminal/Civil Court Administrator, Special Court Administrator
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