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Special Committee on Criminal Justice Funding and Strategies

Chair: Rep. Ed Brooks
Vice Chair: Rep. Robert Turner
Legislative Council Staff:  Anne Sappenfield and Katie Bender-Olson
Member List 
Member List - Subcommittee on Funding Components
Member List - Subcommittee on Courts and Effective Justice Strategies
Member List - Subcommittee on Justice System Funding, Organization, and Strategies

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
  • Memo to Members of the Special Committee, Council Consideration of Committee Report (February 23, 2011).
  • Report to the Legislature, No. 2011-05, Legislation on Criminal Justice Funding and Strategies (February 18, 2011).
Letter Distributed to Committee Members (February 2011)
  • Letter, to Members of the Special Committee on Criminal Justice Funding and Strategies, from Representative Ed Brooks, Chair of the Special Committee. (February 7, 2011).
January 10, 2011 - Subcommittee on Justice System Funding, Organization, and Strategies - CANCELLED
 
January 3, 2011 - Subcommittee on Courts and Effective Justice Strategies
 
December 17, 2010 - Subcommittee on  Funding Components
 
December 2, 2010
  • Memo No. 3, Draft Final Report (December 1, 2010).
  • Letter, from Winn Collins, President, Wisconsin District Attorneys Association (November 12, 2010).
  • Draft Letter, to Representative Jeff Fitzgerald, Assembly Speaker-Elect and Senator Michael Ellis, Senate President-Elect (November 23, 2010).
  • PowerPoint Presentation, by Mike Thompson, Executive Director, and Marc Pelka, Policy Analyst, Council of State Governments Justice Center.
  • Memo No. 4, Potential Committee Recommendations (December 16, 2010).
November 17, 2010  -- CANCELLED
  • Memo No. 2, Fees and Surcharges Collected by the Courts (November 11, 2010).
November 8, 2010  - Subcommittee on Courts and Effective Justice Strategies
  • Concept Paper, Setting the Framework for a Wisconsin Community Justice Act, prepared by the Committee on Effective Strategies for Community Justice (June 2008).
  • Report, WSIPP’s Benefit-Cost Tool for States: Examining Policy Options in Sentencing and Corrections, prepared by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy.
  • Summary, Effective Justice Strategies Research Project conducted by the Planning and Policy Advisory Committee.
  • Speech, State of the Judiciary Address, given by Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson (October 20, 2010).
  • Memorandum, prepared by Committee Member Ben Kempinen, on Discussion Topics.
October 25, 2010 - Subcommittee on Justice System Funding, Organization, and Strategies
  • Tables, Wisconsin Circuit Court Fee, Fine, and Surcharge.
  • Wisconsin State Journal Article, Group Proposes Sales Tax Increase to Fund Schools.
  • Table, Office of Justice Assistance Table, Sales and Use Tax Exemption Devices Summary.
  • Report, Agency Budget Request 2011-2013 Biennium, prepared by the State of Wisconsin, Supreme Court (October 1, 2010).
  • Summary Report, 2009 Surcharge Revenue Summary Report (January 2009 through December 2009).
  • Spreadsheet Regarding Arrests in Wisconsin from 1990-2009.
October 22, 2010 - Subcommittee on  Funding Components
  • Letter, Wisconsin District Attorneys Association Response to 2007 Audit on Allocation of Prosecutor Positions.
  • Letter, State Prosecutors Office Letter Response to 2007 Audit on Allocation of Prosecutor Positions.
  • Report, American Council of Chief Defenders Best Practices Committee Report: Implementation of the ABA’s Ten Principles in Assigned-Counsel Systems.
  • Report, Rates of Compensation Paid to Court-Appointed Counsel in Non-Capital Felony Cases at Trial:  A State-by-State Overview (June 2007).
  • Report, Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Public Defender Programs, 2007.
  • Article, Oshkosh Northwestern Article, Report Overstates Lack of Public Defenders.
  • Summary, Activities of the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties, prepared by Senator Taylor's office.
  • Testimony, prepared by Public Member John Birdsall.
  • Presentation, by District Attorney, Winn S. Collins.
October 21, 2010  - Subcommittee on Courts and Effective Justice Strategies
  • Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission Report, Smart Sentencing.
  • Report, PPAC Effective Justice Strategies Subcommittee, Phase 1.
  • Report, Council of State Governments Justice Center, Repaying Debts.
September 27, 2010
  • Report, Analyses & Policy Options to Reduce Spending on Corrections and Increase Public Safety, submitted by the Council of State Governments, Justice Center (May 2009).
  • Memo No. 1, Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties (September 20, 2010).
  • Remarks, John Keckhaver, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
  • 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.
  • PowerPoint Presentation, by Daniel Hall, Vice President, Court Consulting Services, National Center for State Courts.
  • Remarks, by John Voelker, Director of State Courts.
August 30, 2010
  • Staff Brief 10-02, Funding of State Criminal Justice Functions (August 19, 2010).
  • 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.)
  • 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.).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • Memo, Crisis in the State Prosecution Program, from David Feiss, President, Association of State Prosecutors.
  • Presentation by Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, State of Wisconsin Supreme Court.
  • Remarks, prepared by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, Department of Justice.
  • PowerPoint presentation by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.
  • PowerPoint presentation by David Steingraber, OJA Executive Director, Office of Justice Assistance.
  • Article from Wisconsin Lawyer, submitted by District Attorney Winn Collins.