IACJJA Meeting

Date: 02/07/05

Place: Doubletree Riverside

0900 hrs. Call To Order President

Times below are approximate

0905 hrs. Introduction Membership

Present:

Tim Jordan, Chris Palmer, Terry Lewis, Chris Talkington, Brian Dulin, Nadine McDonald, , Kelly Torrey, Brain Walker, Don Garner, Shelly Smith, Jim Martin, Seth Scott, JT Taylor, Sheley Beck, Ronya Hemenway, Doug Brown, Steve Jett, Debbie Stallcup ( Dianne Baxter, Ron Baxter Commissioner and his wife from Jefferson County and Tad Hagstead from Jefferson

Steve brought up that Power County Probation Officer Crystal Torres fled to her family’s house with her children because of threats from a boyfriend. He showed up at her parent’s house and took her. She left with him to get him away from her children. He then took her out and killed her and them himself. Steve has asked the Legislature to recognize her during their session. Steve asked for a moment of silence in her honor.

Review/approval of minutes President After the review of the minutes Seth made a motion to accept the minutes and Chris seconded motion carried

Treasurer’s Report Treasurer

$ Steve will come back to this after lunch if is able to find out treasurers report from IAC

Regional news and program report

Presentation By Kelly Torrey

Kelly Torrey from Canyon County detention gave a presentation : He shared their training program that they are doing. Their training meets POST requirement for the certification process and policy training that they have put together for their employees. The training brings consistency to the training that is provided to each employee. The have a training coordinator that does their training. The training is four month program. He handed out a Juvenile Detention Observation Report that is used with each employee. It gives immediate feedback to the employees. The supervisors are all on board with the training program. They also have a physical test for each applicant that everyone must pass. The have a on going voluntary physical training program for previously hired employees to keep everyone in shape. This training is outside of what they do at POST. The goal of training is get and keep employees in shape and up to date on policies and procedures.

They also have gone to Impact training and hiring testing, video training (training and test)

IAC/Commissioner’s update IAC rep

Commissioner Baxter, did not have anything he wanted to report on at this time

Special Presentation

Steve presented a plaque to Matt Olsen for his dedicated service as IACJJA president.

Committee Reports Committee Reps

Board of Juvenile Corrections President

Steve gave an update on the board of juvenile corrections.

For the position of superintendent at JCC St. Anthony, they had 7 applications for the position of superintendent it was then narrowed down to 4 candidates Brain Walker sat on the interview board and stated that all candidates are all well qualified with extensive backgrounds and education and all finial four candidates were from out of State.

Matt Olsen gave and update on the 10 year celebration being planed by DJC. He stated that they wanted input from our origanization about who should be there. It was brought up it should be all day especially for those who travel. It was brought up that DJC should share the programs they are using. They will also be presenting local programs that are being used by the different counties. The purpose of the meeting is to look at what goals have been accomplished and where to we want to go in the next ten years. The presentation will include accountability from the department to the communities as to how tax payer dollars are being spent

ICCMH

Ross was unable to attend the meeting. ICCMH have complained that they are not getting specific information relayed to them. Steve contacted them and wrote a letter stating that he would get them specific information as he received it. So Please continue to send Steve concerns with mental health so that they can be forwarded on. Sharon Burke called Steve and stated that she think we are making a difference. Sharon stated that H&W have admitted that they are having some procedure problems.

Steve handed out a memo from Chuck Halligan asking for our participation in a committee that would gather information to be used at sentencing. Several questions were immediately brought up including, how long will this process delay sentencings? And also some members wanted to know how this committee would address the problems that we have been having. Steve has forwarded four separate incidents to Jody Carpenter and the lieutenant governor. This committee would not address those problems.

Steve will contact Chuck to get me clarification as to want they want and will get back to us. Steve will also get input from other members and table it until the March meeting.

It was brought up that in two different detention facilities have gotten kids placed from Blackfoot South straight to their detention facility.

We need to continue to provide hard data to the department like we did when we gave them a one day (9/15/04)snapshot of mental health kids in the juvenile justice system.

Matt talk about a problem with reimbursement that they had experienced in Bannock County. Steve related that the local councils may soon have spending authority, which hopefully would take care of reimbursement problems.

Matt also stated that he would like to see DHW take a more active role in the councils. In the past, DHW employees have not been allowed or have not committed to serve as chairpersons on the councils. Various county employees in each region and other people volunteer their time to sit on the councils, however the councils have been told that DHW employees do not have the time. This is frustrating because DHW employees are usually the ones trained in mental health treatment and the other persons on the councils are not the experts.

Remarks at last ICCMH

Steve passed out a sheet that had notes from the ICCMH . The minutes credited Ross with making a statement that said the IACJJA is a group that is only interested helping kids on their caseloads.

There are counties that are pulling out of the local council due to the lack of consistency from county to county and lack of services. Ada County has recently pulled out of the councils.

There is a lot of confusion about what service H&W does provide. No one will give specific examples. There is no accountability for PSR services.

IJOS Board IACJJA’s IJOS Rep

the meeting will be later in the week.

Governor’s Task Force

Debbie Stallcup informed the group that DJC had presented to the governor's task force concerning peer assisted restraints at JCC St. Anthony. In 2002, there were 703 peer assisted restraints. In 2004 this was down to 157. It is the intent of DJC to cease peer assisted restraints by 2008. DJC representatives said that restraints can vary from one to two minutes upwards to 30 to 40 minutes.

Debbie also stated that the task force continues to look at the homeschooling/non-schooling problem. More data will be collected by the task force in the future.

Legislative Committee

the legislative committee reported that there is proposed legislation concerning Idaho code section 20 -- 505. Also legislation changing the children's mental health act is being watched.

Other Committees

Training Steve talked about the Mar 22 training that will be put on in Boise by the National Partnership for Juvenile Services entitled “Changing The Institutional Culture Through Cognitive Behavioral Programs and Staff Training: A New Look at Behavior Management”. The Training is in Boise March 22^nd at the Red Lion Down Towner. For more information contact Steve at 454-7353 or e-mail at SJE TT@CanyonCounty.org. The cost is $95 per person.

Doug shared information on the training on coaching. Looking at doing a half day on training for department heads and a second day for their supervisors. Her charge is $2000 for the 2 days On the first day she will train about 20 people and at the second meeting she could do 40 people. Matt stated that he is in support of the training. Matt made a motion that we pay for and support the training and we will also send out to see how many people are interested in coming and if there is more than the 20 first day and 40 for the second, we will see if she will respond. The motion was seconded by Terry, the motion carried. Doug will look for time in May.

JJ Training Council/P.O.S.T. Update IACJJA Reps and IAC Reps

Marcy for Task Analysis and POST Update

Marcy gave update on the off site detention academy. She report that it was very successful and went well. There are 14 participants from Bonner County, Kootenai County, JCC Lewiston, Canyon County. There was one probation officer from Bonner County that is also certified as a detention Officer. Marcy stated the Mike Becar is very supportive of dual certification.. There were 3 and counties and DJC that participated. in the off site detention academy.

There are very few that have sent in packets for the next detention academy. Applications need to get submitted ASAP! Probation academy currently has 14 complete applications in. The next waiver hearing is March 3^rd.

CD for suicide is out and you need a DVD to watch them. Marcy also sent out a booklet. Macy will burn the booklet to CD. L

Probation standards were passed. Concern were brought up by Legislator Lefevre about the standards. They were to suicide prevention, harassment between JPO and juvenile, and special ed.

Marcy handed out copies the proposed rules for part-time detention Officer certification. The was a concern brought up by John Triplett about the definition as to a part time employee. Steve stated that this item had discussed by our group previously. Since the definitions up part-time and full-time employees are handled by Idaho code in other areas is not the intention of these rules to try to redefine those things. These won’t become rules until 2007. Please get input back to Marcy if you have any comments about part time employees.

Probation officer and use of force was discussed. It was originally thought that there were not enough instructors throughout the state to recertify probation officers in their self-defense curriculum. However, their curriculum is simply the first part of the regular POST patrol arrest technique course, and instructors exist all over the state. Therefore recertification should not be a problem.

Marcy reported that the new training building is almost done, and the next academies will take place in the new building..

Detention administrators don’t forget that the next detention academy is over Memorial Day.

Marcy informed us that the new chair of the Juvenile Training Council is Matt Olsen.

General Administrator Discussion Topics

Matt asked about restitution on cases were disposition is transferred. They had a couple cases in their area where the disposition was transferred and it was unclear as to who was going to do the research to ascertain how much restitution was owed. He was curious to know how other areas of the state were handling this. Please get any information to Steve or Matt concerning this.

Steve talked about the Rule of 80

He read the definition and we meet the definition. H e talked to Toni Panelli and he was asked to see what the impact to the counties. For a person making $30,000, the increase in the County's contribution would be less than $100 per year. It would not be retroactive. The are at least two counties that will bring it up at the IAC conference.

Retired Sheriff Vaughn Kileen gave an up date on Board of Juvenile Corrections. He stated the Department is looking at more cut backs, which leads to kids being leased. He stated that there really are no other large issues.

Seth Scott and Chris Palmer reported on ART Access to Recovery. They handed out a handout with information about the monies. There have been several different committees that have formed. If you want more information you can go to their web site to get their information. ART is looking for more individuals to sit on committees. Call Chris if you are interested.

DJC topics DJC Rep

Bill Lasley on DJC issues.

Bill passed out an update on proposed 2005 legislation If you are not receiving the updates just give Sarah a call at DJC and she will email them to you. Her number is 334-5100 extension 12.

State Block grant changes on reporting was passed around. Along with all the reports from the counties. Bill went over all the changes that have been made. If you have any feedback please get back to Bill.

Next meeting is McCall March 9^th. The meeting will be at the Best Western and will start at 0900. Rooms are available at the Best Western for $62. You must state that you want the government rate and remind them that you are with the juvenile justice administrators Association. Call them now at 634-6300.

June 6^th in Moscow

Terry made a motion that we adjourn and it was seconded by Seth motion carried.

____ hrs. Adjournment

See you in McCall!