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    • Safety and Justice Challenge Community Collaborative

    Pima County’s Safety and Justice Challenge has formed a Community Collaborative to help implement the reforms developed as part of a $1.5 million grant award. 

    CollaborativeThe group is composed of justice system partners and community representatives, including individuals who previously were incarcerated. Members meet regularly to review data and propose adjustments to the strategies of the Pima County Safety and Justice Challenge as needed.

    About Pima County’s Strategies:

    In April 2016, the County received $1.5 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to help implement strategies like expanded risk screening for all misdemeanor defendants to increase post-booking releases from jail; adding substance abuse and mental health screening before the initial court appearance to provide the judge safe options for release to treatment instead of jail; enhancing automated call, text and email court-date reminder systems that can reduce failure to appear rates; and special weekend warrant resolution courts. 

    When Pima County implemented the Safety and Justice Challenge strategies about 80 percent of jail inmates were in pretrial status. Warrants for failure to appear in court (93 percent of which related to underlying misdemeanor charges), misdemeanor charges like shoplifting and DUIs, and lower-level felony charges (such as possession/use of a dangerous or narcotic drug, possession of drug paraphernalia and aggravated criminal damage) were the main drivers of the pretrial jail population.

    For more information, contact Terrance Cheung or call him at 520-724-8770.

    Biographies

    The Safety and Justice Community Collaborative Group was created as part of MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge Grant to lower the County's jail population and address issues of racial disparities in the criminal justice system.  These members continue to serve on a non-paid volunteer basis and at the discretion of the County Administrator.

     Community Representatives
     Lyle Daychild   Michele Keller Hon. Charles Pyle (Ret.)
     Thea Dixon Hon. Michael Lex (Ret.) Celia Robidoux
     Anna Harper-Guerrero Chad Marchand Grady Scott 
     Sally Hueston Manny Mejias Andrew Silverman
     Genevieve James Kona Morrison Rudy Trinidad
     Keith Jeffery Guenevere Nelson-Melby Gerald Williams

     

     Public Agency Representatives
    Karla Avalos  Ron Overholt Alfred Urbina
    Domingo Corona Matt Pate Danna Whiting
    Amelia Craig Cramer Hon. Tony Riojas Jason Winsky
    Lori Lefferts Micci Tilton
    Lt. Scott Lowing Yvette Tucker

     

    As biographies become available they will be linked above.

    Agendas

    Community Collaborative Steering Committee
     September 18, 2017
    (No agenda available at this time)     		 January 19, 2017
     June 5, 2017                   
                 		 November 18, 2016

     March 6, 2017

    October 21, 2016

     December 5, 2016

     
     September 19, 2016  

     

    Upcoming Events

    Hosted by Pima County Safety and Justice Challenge

     Warrant Resolution Night Court
     Dates:

     Tuesday night(s) 
      June 13, 2017     
      July 11, 2017

    		            
    August 15, 2017
    September 12, 2017    		            
    October 10, 2017
    November 28, 2017
               
    December 19, 2017         
               
     Time:  4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. MST
     Location:  Pima County Consolidated Justice Court
     240 North Stone Avenue
     Tucson, Arizona 85701
     Website:  www.jp.pima.gov
     
     Warrant Resolution Weekend Court 
     Date:  Saturday
     August 26, 2017 
     Time:  8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. MST
     Location:  Pima County Consolidation Justice Court
     240 North Stone Avenue
     Tucson, Arizona 85701
     Website:  www.jp.pima.gov
     

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    Safety + Justice Challenge Grant

    Ellen Wheeler
    Assistant County Administrator
    (520) 724-8661

    Terrance Cheung
    Program Manager
    (520) 724-8770

    130 W. Congress Street,
    10th Floor
    Tucson, AZ 85701


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