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Feature - March 28, 2016

Proposition 47 in the Courts: Workload Impacts

California superior courts received more than 200,000 petitions for resentencing or applications for reclassification during the first 13 months after voters approved Proposition 47.
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Judicial Council Staff Report: Prop 47 First Year Impacts
Prop 47 Filings: Detailed Data
More About Prop 47
Criminal Justice Reform

Feature - June 15, 2016

Reentry Courts Focus on Parolees at Highest Risk

With California’s growing focus on criminal justice reform comes expanding use of reentry courts as an alternative to cycles of re-incarceration. Reentry courts, a type of collaborative justice court for individuals released from jail or prison, offer...
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Parolee Reentry Court Program Evaluation
Reentry Court Roundtable Materials
Collaborative Courts
Criminal Justice Reform

News Release - September 21, 2016

Judicial Council Receives Grant to Study Ability to Pay Fines and Fees

The Judicial Council of California has been awarded $488,000 by the U.S. Department of Justice to study and identify issues related to defendants’ inability to pay fines and fees. The grant would include the development of an ability-to-pay...
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Council Adopts Rule on Contesting Traffic Infractions
Department of Justice News Release
Administrative Director Named to National Task Force: Fines, Fees, and Bail
Fines And Fees
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Feature - October 12, 2016

Ending Debtors' Prison

In a recent policy paper the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) recommend policies and practices that courts can adopt to reduce the negative impact that fines and fees have on those unable to pay.
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The End of Debtors’ Prisons: Effective Court Policies for Successful Compliance…
Administrative Director Martin Hoshino
Conference of State Court Administrators
Fines And Fees

News Release - January 19, 2017

Council Hears That Pretrial Risk Assessment Can Lower Rate of Defendants’ Pretrial Misconduct

At its public meeting on January 19, Judicial Council members heard a report that the use of evidence-based practices in pretrial risk assessment can reduce misconduct and failure to appear rates for criminal defendants.
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Calif. Judges Wowed by Tool to Assess Criminal Defendants
Meeting archive (video)
Judicial Council
Criminal Justice Reform
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Keeping Kids in School steering committee chairs, Judge Stacy Boulware Eurie (left) and Judge Donna Groman, present on the connections between trauma, truancy and school discipline practices for court-involved youth. Watch here. Slides are available here.

News Release - August 25, 2017

Chief Justice Issues Statement on Bail Reform

Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye joins Governor Brown, Senator Hertzberg and Assemblymember Bonta in a commitment to cooperate on reforms.
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Pre-Trial Detention Reform Workgroup
Joint Statement on Reforms to California's Bail System
Sacramento Bee
Criminal Justice Reform
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State of the Judiciary 2017

News Release - October 24, 2017

Chief Justice Workgroup: Money Bail is “Unsafe and Unfair”

A workgroup established by Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye to study California’s bail system issued a slate of recommendations Tuesday, saying money bail should be replaced by a risk-based assessment and supervision program that determines whether to jail defendants before trial based on their threat to public safety and their likelihood of making a court appearance.
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Pretrial Detention Reform Workgroup
Criminal Justice Reform
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News Release - November 6, 2017

Frequently Asked Questions: Pretrial Detention Reform

Learn more about the Pretrial Detention Reform Workgroup's recommendations, the California bail system and other reform efforts nationwide.
Related:
Chief Justice Workgroup: Money Bail is “Unsafe and Unfair”
Full Report: Pretrial Detention Reform
Bail
Criminal Justice Reform
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News Release - November 17, 2017

Council Hears Why Money Bail Should End

At its meeting this week, the Judicial Council heard from the Pretrial Detention Reform Workgroup, approved legislative priorities, received an update on court innovation grants, and more.
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Meeting agenda, reports, video
Judicial Council
Criminal Justice Reform
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Judge Lisa Rodriguez (left) and Judge Brian Back, co-chairs of the Pretrial Detention Reform Workgroup.

Feature - December 22, 2017

A Road to Recovery

The Superior Court of Monterey established its DUI Treatment Court in October 2015 and has graduated 24 people from the program.
Related:
Press Release: DUI Treatment Court Awarded 3rd Year Grant
Sacramento Superior Court Receives Grant Funding to Implement a Pilot DUI Treat…
DUI Court in San Joaquin County Receives Continued Funding
Superior Court of Monterey County
Collaborative Courts
Monterey
Drug Court
San Joaquin
Sacramento

Feature - January 3, 2018

Courts Help Put New Laws into Effect

In 2018, a number of new laws were created in the hope of expanding the rights of Californians through the court system.
Judicial Council
Criminal Justice Reform
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Feature - August 2, 2018

Restorative Justice: Healing California’s Youth

Juvenile courts in California are uniquely responsible for the treatment and rehabilitation of young offenders. But increasingly, courts and schools are recognizing the value of keeping students in classrooms and out of the court system altogether.
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Keeping Kids in School and Out of Court
Center for Justice & Reconciliation
Indigenous Justice
Report: Impacts of Punitive Discipline
Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs in CA
Keeping Kids In School
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