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Effective Pretrial System Mapping: Collaborative, Data, and Research-Guided Practices to Improve Local Reforms and Outcomes
SESSION INFO
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Session Type: Workshop
Pretrial systems are rapidly reforming around the country to result in more fair, legally compliant, public safety/risk focused, data and research informed, and outcome-driven practices. These are intended to better balance defendants’ rights with public safety needs to allow more lower-risk, potentially releasable individuals to receive meaningful release considerations not impeded by unreasonable bail or overly restrictive bond requirements. However, successful reforms require broad collaboration that is well-aligned with national best practices and change management principles. This requires political will and well-designed reform strategies where local leaders equitably share and guide responsibilities, resources, work product, and ultimate outcomes. This session will inform about best practices for more collaborative, data and research informed approaches to mapping and designing more effective pretrial systems that meet expected legal requirements, practice standards, and performance outcomes and better balance system fairness with public safety needs. It will also include a brief local planning exercise.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Michael J. Laughlin
Implementation Consultant, Tyler Technologies
Michael Laughlin holds an M.Ed. in Counseling/Guidance and is a former Senior U.S. Pretrial/Probation Officer/Specialist, later serving as a County Manager over Jail Diversion, Pretrial, and Criminal Justice systems in multiple jurisdictions. He is past President of Texas Association of Pretrial Services and currently serves on the Professional Development Committee. Additionally, Mr. Laughlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, and nationally Certified Pretrial Release and Pretrial Diversion Professional. He served 40 years within clinical and criminal justice systems at city, state, county, and Federal levels providing and managing treatment services, as well as Federal/County Courts overseeing clients and staff as a senior officer, treatment and workforce specialist and manager. He led multi-disciplinary, inter-system teams in successfully building several in-custody and community-based treatment, jail diversion, and reentry/workforce development programs with national recognition and replication. Mr. Laughlin has trained groups 30-plus years on treatment, corrections, criminal justice, pretrial, career/workforce development and performance measurement topics. He looks forward to fostering fresh ideas and inspiration here about improving pretrial system mapping and reform efforts that create more fair, legally compliant, and successful case and public safety outcomes for justice-involved citizens, and their families and communities.
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