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Incorporation of Lippman Commission recommendations
3:40:22
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Council Member Salaam inquires about how the Lippman Commission's funding recommendations were considered in the executive plan. MOCJ officials explain their approach to incorporating these recommendations.
- MOCJ had previews of the Lippman Commission's recommendations
- Many of the suggestions match ongoing work
- Weekly updates with DOC and correctional health incorporate recommendations
- Prioritized projects for the Department of Correction align with highlighted areas
- Focus on improving case processing and access to materials for detained individuals
- Collaboration with the Office of Court Administration to reduce time spent on Rikers
Yusef Salaam
3:40:22
The council included several proposals in our budget response that emphasized recommendations made by the Littmann condition commission in their budget blueprint to close Rikers.
3:40:32
So my question is how were the Littmann Commission's funding recommendations considered when finalizing the executive plan and did you discuss these commitments with the Littmann Commission since the plan was released?
Deanna Logan
3:40:48
Thank you.
3:40:48
We were the benefit of actually having Littmann Commission folks kind of preview for us where they were in terms of the recommendations.
3:40:58
Many of the suggestions and the recommendations in the report match a lot of work that is being done now.
3:41:07
And so, as we look at working with our weekly updates with DOC, with correctional health, we are incorporating a lot of that work in that weekly meeting.
3:41:21
The projects that have been prioritized and funded for the Department of Correction meet some of the areas that the Littman Commission highlighted very specifically.
3:41:36
Case processing is one of the areas that they highlighted, and we are working to ensure that people who are detained are getting access to the materials that they need in order to meaningfully help in their own defense by having opportunity to review evidence and to annotate it and to talk to their counsel about it in a more timely fashion, which then supports all of the work that Littman has been working with Office of Court Administration, and we too have been talking with the Office of Court Administration about how to timely move cases through the system and reduce the time that people are spending on Rikers.