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Transfer of funds for new Deputy Director of Policy and Justice Operations
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Council Member Yusef Salaam inquires about the transfer of funds from POD to MOCJ for a new Deputy Director of Policy and Justice Operations position. MOCJ officials explain the purpose and status of this new role.
- The position is a backfill for a promoted staff member.
- The role focuses on policy work related to criminal justice system efficiency initiatives.
- The new Deputy Director started working at MOCJ two days prior to the hearing.
Yusef Salaam
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The plan includes an additional $87,500 in fiscal year twenty five and then a baseline increase of a hundred and $75,000 starting in fiscal year twenty six from funds transferred from POD to Mach J for a deputy director of policy and justice operations.
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What is the purpose of this transfer?
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What
Michael McMahon
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will
Yusef Salaam
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be the responsibilities of this position?
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And is this currently a vacant position for which you are hiring or is the position filled by someone who previously worked worked at the POD?
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The
Deanna Logan
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position is a backfill for us.
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We promoted when our first deputy director moved to DCAS as their general counsel, we promoted our current senior attorney to be our first deputy director and we are now backfilling her position which we are grateful that we have done so.
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The role for this position will be very dedicated to policy work that we are doing as it relates to all of the initiatives that support the overall efficiency of the criminal justice system.
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Case processing very specifically which you heard a lot about earlier today where we look very specifically at the logjams that we are seeing with our stakeholders and come up with the solutions on how to move them.
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And sometimes that's really as simple as figuring out how to make sure that a Sally Port door is being opened timely.
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So that person will coordinate the other members of the policy team to create strategy, but also on the day to day making sure that logjams are moved.
Candice Julien
7:48:40
I will also add that that position is no longer vacant.
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The deputy director for policy and justice operation is now serving in his second day at MACJ.