Explore How a Digital Assistant and Automation Can Streamline Your Work and Support Your Agency

SESSION INFO

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Session Type: Workshop

Discover how Michigan and 18 other states are using the latest in technology to improve outcomes for staff and clients, learn about the latest in automation (and even a bit on artificial intelligence), and brainstorm ways these technologies can support your team. Join this session to hear more about how Recidiviz’s intelligent assistant helps staff focus on clients that need attention the most, identifies high priority opportunities for clients, and automates paperwork to streamline processes. Hear about the current technologies of automation and how they can help your team, learn a bit about artificial intelligence. During breakout groups, weigh in on where you think these technologies hold the most (or least) promise for the field as a whole as well as identify specific opportunities where an assistant could support your team and your department via a training exercise.

SESSION PRESENTERS

Linde Hoffman
State Engagement Manager, Recidiviz


Linde Hoffman is a State Engagement Manager at Recidiviz. Previously, she supported agency implementation and program development for the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) Project at the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law. Prior to that, she served as a reentry case manager and instructor in the women’s division of Cook County Jail in Chicago. In her free time, she loves hiking, cooking NYT recipes, and watching Notre Dame football. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a part-time Master of Public Policy student at Georgetown University.


Russ Marlan
Deputy Director - FOA, MI Department of Corrections


Russ Marlan is the Deputy Director of Field Operations Administration for the Michigan Department of Corrections, where he oversees statewide parole and probation staff working at 105 field offices, the Parole Board, the Absconder Recovery Unit, the Electronic Monitoring Unit. He was appointed to this role in 2014. He began his career with the Department in 1992, working in a variety of roles including Parole Officer, Public Information Officer, and Administrator of the Executive Bureau. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University.