Roundtable on Collaboration between SAC and SAA to support the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA)

This roundtable will discuss the collaboration between SAAs and SACs working on data collection for DCRA reporting. It will highlight the impact of these partnerships for enhancing the quality of DCRA data collection and explore strategies for improving SAA-SAC collaboration in other states. In addition, this session will also discuss the results of focus groups recently held by JIRN to investigate common DCRA data collection challenges.

Discussants:  Jeff Zuback – Maryland, Joe O’Sullivan – Kentucky, Drew Ritzel – Kentucky, Thomas Strauss – Idaho, Julie Brotzman – Idaho, and Kara Thompson – Idaho
Moderator: Doug Spence, Senior Research Fellow, Justice Information Resource Network