Who We Are
Justice Counts comprises 21 partner organizations representing officials at every corner of our nation’s state, county, and municipal justice systems. The initiative is led by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and The Council of State Governments Justice Center. Justice Counts is guided by a steering committee of active state and local officials—from law enforcement, to corrections, to legislatures, and beyond.
Partners
American Jail Association
American Probation and Parole Association
Correctional Leaders Association
CNA
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Justice Management Institute
Measures for Justice
National Association of Counties Research Foundation
National Association of State Budget Officers
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
NRI
National Criminal Justice Association
National Center for State Courts
National Conference of State Legislatures
National District Attorneys Association
National Governors Association
National Legal Aid & Defender Association
National Sheriffs’ Association
RAND Corporation
Recidiviz
University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute
We believe that safety and justice deserves better data. An essential step in realizing this goal is the adoption of criminal justice metrics that provide timely, consistent data to policymakers and their communities. Consensus-driven metrics that account for variation in data collection, analysis, and reporting and that provide key insights on system trends, operations, and outcomes across all criminal justice sectors provide a new and crucial resource for the field. We believe that, together, we can make Justice Count.
Steering Committee Members
Michael Boggs (chair), Presiding Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia
Romain Alexander, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Governor, Delaware
Jennifer Bailey, Administrative Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit, Florida
Jeff Brandes, State Senator, Florida
Kathy Buckley, Director, Pennsylvania Office of Victims’ Services, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California
Bernice Corley, Executive Director, Indiana Public Defender Council
Lee Eby, Captain, Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon
Tony Fish, Program Manager, Muscogee (Creek) Nation Reentry Program, Oklahoma
Justin Forkner, Chief Administrative Officer, Indiana Supreme Court
Claire Hall, County Commissioner, Lincoln County, Oregon
Abigale Jasinsky, Deputy Director of Policy, Office of the Governor, Tennessee
Peter John Koutoujian, Sheriff, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Valerie Mielke, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, New Jersey Department of Human Services
Karhlton Moore, Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Michael Nail, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Community Supervision
Sheila Polk, County Attorney, Yavapai County, Arizona
Christopher Poulos, Director of Person-Centered Services, Washington State Department of Corrections
Ruby Qazilbash, Associate Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice
Carlos Rivero, Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia
Dr. Beth Skinner, Director, Iowa Department of Corrections
Nicole Sullivan, Deputy Secretary, Analysis, Programming and Policy, North Carolina Department of Public Safety
Banci Tewolde, Associate Director, Virginia Public Safety, Department of Planning and Budget
Dr. Heather Tubman-Carbone, Senior Policy Advisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice
Toni Walker, State Representative, Connecticut
Paul F. Williams, Chief of Police, City of Springfield, Missouri
Bennet Wright, Executive Director, Alabama Sentencing Commission