Pierce County Juvenile Court

1. Pierce County Juvenile Court Disproportionate Minority Confinement

2. Today’s Agenda • Provide information on how Pierce County established a DMC reduction agenda • Review lessons learned • Report out on areas of progress and areas still needing improvement

3. Leadership and Support • Judicial Leadership • High Quality Technical Assistance and Training -Annie E. Casey Foundation -State AECF Team Leader -Burns Institute • Funding from AECF, WA-PCJJ (formerly GJJAC)

4. Challenges Strengths • Strong Judicial leadership • Progressive culture • Engaged and active case processing group • Active community with a history of partnering • Results; Success breeds success • Navigating difficult conversations about Racial and Ethnic Disparities (RED) • Effectively engaging communities of color and community based organizations • Fiscal pressures that aren’t in alignment with JDAI Principles • Progressing with Less

5. Key Messages • Judicial Leadership – prioritizing and promoting the examination of racial disparities • Collaboration and partnerships important – community, prosecutor, defense, schools, etc. • Court must be committed and stay focused, this work is complex • “Learn, manage, improve" model • Stick to the principles of JDAI

6. Why is this important?

7. Pierce County Youth Population, age 10 - 17

8. Average Daily Population 2000-2011

9. Race in Detention 2000-2011

10. Average Length of Stay in Detention

11. African American youth are: What we know • Referred at a rate that is 2.5 times higher than the rate of Caucasian youth • Brought to detention at a rate that is 3.4 times higher than Caucasian youth • Detained at a rate that is 3.6 times higher than Caucasian youth • Detained for a high DRAI score (over 10) at a rate that is 5.9 times more than Caucasian youth • Booked into detention for a B+ felony of higher at a rate that is 3.5 times higher than Caucasian youth • Committed to JRA at a rate that is 5.2 times higher than Caucasian youth (2009 data)

12. First Reaction

13. JDAI in Pierce County

14. ) Detain Release with Conditions ( PRR Release 2136 332 412 Court Detained High RAI Score Low & Moderate RAI 262 479 1395 Low = 241 , Mod = 7 , High = 14 PolicyHolds (Special Detention) Policy Holds 736 (Overrides) 659 Cannot locate parents Federal Law State Law Local Policy 298 0 0 736 Parents refused youth 301 PCJCWarrant 300 Other 60 Probation Violation 190 Other 143 DV 143 Detention Risk Assessments, 2009

15. Setting goals • We predicted if we could impact Probation Violations, Warrants, Domestic Violence, and Parent Refusals, then we could impact detention admissions and bednights • At the same time, build on Evidence Based Programs to reduce recidivism

16. Strategies to Reduce Detention Admissions and Bednights for African American Youth

18. Strategy 1 – Reduce FTA’s

19. Strategy 2 – Reduce Violations

20. African American Youth DMC Reduction

21. Two Common Ways to Report Disproportionality • Rates of Disproportionality -- Tells us the extent of over- or under-representation of a population • Risk Ratio -- Tells us the relative disproportionality of one group compared to another group

22. Disproportionality Rate Calculation A number less than 1 represents UNDER-representation; larger than 1=OVER-representation

23. In this example, African American children are in foster care at a rate that is 2.2 times higher than the rate for White children Risk Ratio Calculation

24. Example

25. Risk Ratio – Warrants and PV’s

26. Summary • Reducing racial disparities is very complex • Must focus on the principles of JDAI - leadership, collaboration, focused and intentional strategies, data driven decision making • To sustain the effort, must create a paradigm shift • It’s all about creating a fair and equitable system for the kids in our community

27. Contact Information TJ Bohl Assistant Administrator – Probation Pierce County Juvenile Court tbohl@co.pierce.wa.us Kevin Williams JDAI Coordinator/Probation Supervisor Pierce County Juvenile Court kwillia@co.pierce.wa.us