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25 May 2017, 11:26 am
Supported by grants from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, based in Houston, researchers analyzed 1.5 million cases nationwide and concluded that a scoring system, based on analysis of nine factors, could provide good assistance in making decisions on whether to release defendants. [read post]
25 May 2017, 11:26 am
Supported by grants from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, based in Houston, researchers analyzed 1.5 million cases nationwide and concluded that a scoring system, based on analysis of nine factors, could provide good assistance in making decisions on whether to release defendants. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 2:16 pm
Under the new system, when a defendant is arrested on a complaint-warrant, the judge setting bail will use an objective, validated risk assessment tool developed by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to assess the risk that the defendant will be arrested for a new offense; be arrested for a new violent crime; and fail to appear in court when required to do so. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 8:00 am
According to research by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, it costs the state of California around $4.5 million a day to keep those people in jail. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 6:57 am
Lately, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation's Josh McGee has been pounding away at the fundamental fiscal insolvency of these funds, mos recently in this excellent short report written with Paulina Diaz on the Dallas police and firefighters' pension. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 3:32 pm
San Francisco and 30 other cities or counties have adopted a scoring system established by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation which uses nine factors to establish the bail bond amount. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 3:32 pm
San Francisco and 30 other cities or counties have adopted a scoring system established by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation which uses nine factors to establish the bail bond amount. [read post]
17 Sep 2016, 5:27 am
The new scoring system, developed by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, uses nine factors to estimate risk, including a defendant’s age, whether the charge is a violent offense, prior convictions and previous failures to appear in court. [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am
" Give it a read.Risk assessment resourcesHeard of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation's risk assessment model but haven't dug into the details? [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 6:51 am
The Christian Science Monitor has a piece on the Laura and John Arnold Foundation's risk assessment model, for which Grits harbors high hopes. [read post]
10 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation, for instance, has developed a “criminal justice initiative,” the aim of which is “to reduce crime, increase public safety, and ensure the criminal justice system operates as fairly and cost-effectively as possible. [read post]
26 May 2016, 7:22 am
Earlier this year, the committee spearheaded an effort to diagnose and solve problems in the system with a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.The diagnostic test announced Tuesday was developed by the Houston-based Laura and John Arnold Foundation. [read post]
24 May 2016, 8:16 am
Grits is optimistic about some of the work the Laura and John Arnold Foundation has been funding on that score, but they'll have to work through the concerns raised in the above-lined articles. [read post]
17 Apr 2016, 9:02 am
That story mentioned the little-discussed interest of the Arnold Foundation on forfeiture issues which piqued Grits' interest:The threat helped prompt the Laura and John Arnold Foundation in Houston to establish the Coalition for Public Safety last year.In an editorial for the Dallas Morning News last year, the Arnolds dared suggest that one reason no one in Texas government is eager to raise the bar for asset seizures is how much… [read post]
6 Dec 2015, 6:25 am
Nothing groundbreaking but some good, technical background.Finally, the September OCA newsletter included links to several resources on pretrial detention and bail reform that look useful:2012 - 2013 Policy Paper:Evidence-Based Pretrial Release (Conference of State Court Administrators)Results from the First Six Months of the Public Safety Assessment - Court in Kentucky (Laura and John Arnold Foundation)Money as a Criminal Justice Stakeholder: The Judge's… [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 2:59 pm
Our Alinskyite friends at the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT) are mad at Governor Greg Abbott, reported the Dallas News' Brandi Grissom, because he "appointed Josh McGee, a vice president at the Houston-based Laura and John Arnold Foundation, to the State Pension Review Board this week.The review board, created by the state legislature, is charged with overseeing state and local government retirement systems. [read post]
25 Nov 2015, 3:30 am
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation has announced that it’s donating $1.9 million to develop a search engine for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 5:56 am
" So I suspect he was pleased as I was to see that the Texas-based Laura and John Arnold Foundation is funding a massive investigation by the American Association for the Advancement of Science into "the underlying scientific bases for the forensic tools and methods currently used in the criminal justice system," focusing on ten specific forensic disciplines:Bloodstain Pattern AnalysisDigital EvidenceFire InvestigationsFirearms and… [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 10:07 am
After two years of testing, the formula, developed at a cost of $1.2 million by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, is being rolled out to 21 more jurisdictions, including states like Arizona and New Jersey and cities like Chicago and Pittsburgh, the foundation announced on Friday. [read post]
23 Feb 2014, 6:10 pm
