Navigating the Landscape: Responsible AI Use in Community Supervision

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Simon is the former CIO for the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). A role he held for more than 6 years and retired from that position after almost 30 years in the Canadian Public Service. On his retirement, he joined Telio as their Chief Research Officer and Director New Business Development, where he creates and implements strategic approaches in new markets, and builds relationships with jurisdictions, researchers and other stakeholders to advance thought leadership in the correctional space. He is currently the Corporate Chair of the Corrections Technology Association and previously served as Secretary. In addition, he is the Chair of the IT Network for the International Corrections and Prison Association as well as member of the Technology Committee at the American Probation and Parole Association.

Jason was named Chief of the Parole Division in June 2017. In his position, he oversees the supervision of parole staff and parolees in all 102 counties in Illinois. A veteran of the Department, Garnett began his career in 1994 and rose through the ranks, promoting to upper management and executive positions including Correctional Officer, Leisure Time Service I & II, and Correctional Counselor II at Centralia Correctional Center; Correctional Captain, Shift Commander, and Warden at Lawrence Correctional Center; District 5 Deputy Director of Operations; District 2-5 Deputy Chief of Parole; IDOC Acting Assistant Director; and Warden of Big Muddy Correctional Center. As the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) Parole Division continues to strive to be a leader in parole practices, the introduction of AI initiatives could possibly be a game changer in how day to day practices are completed. Currently, the IDOC Parole Division is in the learning stages of how AI can enhance our parole operations to ensure we are working most efficiently and how it can help better serve our population with better accuracy in the performance of case management.

Marcus was named Associate Director for Court Services Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) in Washington DC in 2017, following a 25-year career with the Virginia Department of Corrections. At Virginia DOC, he held positions including Rehabilitation Counselor at a maximum-security prison, Intensive Probation and Parole Officer, Sr. Probation Officer in Community Correctional facilities (Detention/Diversion programs), Deputy Chief Probation & Parole Officer, Chief Probation and Parole Officer, and Regional Manager. He served as President of the National Association of Probation Executives (NAPE) from 2014-2018 and is currently President-elect of the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA). He also assists in facilitating the American Probation and Parole Association Leadership Academy and is co-chair of the Diversity committee. Throughout his career, Marcus has worked passionately in various positions to create environments that produce safer communities, and fewer victims while reducing recidivism. His agency (CSOSA) embraces the approach of responsible utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it has the potential to revolutionize community corrections by making processes more efficient, effective, and equitable.

Hakan is an experienced Chief Information Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Innovation Management, Business Development, Strategic Planning and Change Management. Holds an Executive MBA-degree and is specialized in managing global R&D and innovation within large scale organizations. Hakan has during the period 2011 to 2017 had the position as CIO for Region Ostergotland, the fourth largest county council and healthcare provider in Sweden as well as several national assignments within the domain. Since 2017, Hakan holds the position as CIO for the Swedish Prison and Probation Service and was the previous head of the Expert Group for ICT within Europris.

Mike has enjoyed a career that has covered countries, platforms, companies, and minds. He has consistently created business value from research, data, analysis, and innovation. His 30 plus year career has prioritized areas of data science and artificial intelligence including industrial process control, predictive consumer behavior valuation, insurance knowledge management, machine learning in post-secondary education, and generative AI for neuroscience products. Mike spent over a decade in academia, as a professor, research leader, and Dean, and he was involved in the creation of 8 graduate and undergraduate degree programs, the launch of 2 applied-research centers, and the supervision of many artificial intelligence and big data related research projects and publications. Mike is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer for Multi-Health Systems Ltd., where he leads strategy, business operations, technology research, and solution delivery for global markets in Public Safety, Talent Management, Healthcare, & Education. Mike’s research interest is in the field of autonomous and semi-autonomous agents (AI subsystems) in business management systems, specifically focusing on “agent goal setting based on business priorities” and “ascertaining agent behaviour through post-event analysis.”

Eric is Group Leader for the Equivant Justice Group, comprised of three companies serving the justice field – from automation of courts to community supervision, pretrial, prisons and jails, treatment courts and lab information systems. In his current role, Eric is a leader within Constellation Software/Volaris on AI initiatives and education. He has run software companies serving the criminal justice field since 2002, prior to that he was an innovator in creating SaaS solutions for banking, healthcare, B2B e-commerce, and association and meeting management. He started his now 40+ year career in technology solutions working for IBM, spanning enterprise level solutions from mainframe to client-server. Eric has been the Chair of the APPA Technology Committee since 2018, and together with 25+ other committee members develop programs and educational content designed to aid practitioners in learning about and applying emerging and applied technologies. The Tech Committee recently formed an AI Subcommittee, which is sponsoring this session and is currently working on a Four Pillar framework for Responsible Use of AI. The Tech Committee has also sponsored an initiative, PAPDeX, to develop and advance data exchange standards for the criminal justice field. PAPDeX is being pursued in partnership with the IJIS Institute.