Dan Weitz oversees dispute resolution programs for the New York court system. Weitz spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about mediation.
Stephen V. Manley is a Superior Court judge in Santa Clara County. He has served on the bench for over 25 years. He was a founder of the Drug Treatment Court in Santa Clara County as well as the Santa Clara County Mental Health Treatment Court. In January 2005 he spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about his work.
Bonnie Dumanis was sworn in as the district attorney for San Diego County in January 2003—and is the first woman to serve in this role. Prior to serving as San Diego's top prosecutor, she served as a judge. In this capacity, she was a driving force behind the creation of local drug and domestic violence courts. Dumanis sat down with Carolyn Turgeon of the Center for Court Innovation to talk about her experiences.
Walter Dickey has been a member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School for almost 30 years. He has written extensively about community justice issues, and how police and prosecutors work can together with community members effectively for public safety. In early 2005, he spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about his views on community prosecution.
Stephen Manley is a Superior Court judge in Santa Clara County. He has served on the bench for over 25 years. He was a founder of the Drug Treatment Court in Santa Clara County as well as the Santa Clara County Mental Health Treatment Court. In January 2005 he spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about his work.
Judge Nicolette Pach developed and presided over New York State's first Family Treatment Court, which began in 1997 in Suffolk County. Currently, she is a Judicial Fellow for the National Drug Court Institute, a consultant to the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare and provides technical assistance to jurisdictions grappling with the difficult issues of collaboration with the courts.
Currently serving his second term, Paul L. Howard, Jr. assumed the Office of Fulton County District Attorney in January 1997—becoming the first African-American to be elected district attorney in the history of the State of Georgia. He spoke to the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about community prosecution.
Judge Eileen Koretz presided over the Midtown Community Court from 1997 until 2006. Before being appointed to the Criminal Court of the City of New York by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1995, she was an assistant district attorney in Bronx County for nearly two decades. She sat down to talk about the Midtown Community Court's award-winning computer technology.
Portland's first community court opened in March 1998 in the North/Northeast section of the city. It was followed, two years later, in February 2000, by the opening of the Southeast Community Court. With the opening of the Westside Community Court in April 2001, all of Portland's half million citizens had access to a community court. That same year Sarah Archer-Beck of the Community Justice Exchange talked with Robyn Gregory, the Portland Community Court project coordinator, about the city's Community Court program.
Charles J. Hynes has served as district attorney of Kings County (better known as Brooklyn), New York, since 1989. Here, he discusses his interest in community prosecution and his views about criminal justice innovations.