John Harte, enrolled member of the San Felipe Pueblo and former Policy Director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, will be presenting on key provisions of the Tribal Law & Order Act and the types of intergovernmental coordination necessary for successful implementation.

Because numerous provisions of the Tribal Law & Order Act mandate quick action by the Obama Administration, as well as State and tribal officials, it is important to host this webinar without delay.  As such, we have postponed our previously scheduled webinar on cross-jurisdictional law enforcement agreements until a later time this fall.
 
We welcome your continued participation in this webinar series, a component of a larger tribal-state collaboration project funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice.

To find out more and or to register, click HERE.  

Program outcomes for the 3-hour live, interactive broadcast include:

• Examining the personal and professional competencies needed to fulfill the role of a supervisor, including skills in management and leadership, problem solving and critical thinking, communication (oral, written, voicemail, and e-mail), and active listening and responding.
• Assessing personal and professional goals that can be applied to a work setting.
• Demonstrating how to select a mentor to assist in one’s development as a supervisor.

To find out more or to register, click HERE. Registration deadline is September 15, 2010.

Contact Information:

National Institute of Corrections
http://www.nicic.gov/Training/SIB09152010

Service on the JMCC involves a five-year term. Each year at AJA's Annual Training Conference & Jail Expo, the current JMCC chair concludes his/her duties. The fifth-year commissioner becomes the chair and the fourth-year commissioner becomes the vice chair. The AJA Board of Directors appoints a new commission member to fill the vacancy created by this rotation. The official duties of the new commission member commences at AJA's Annual Conference.

For more information, click HERE.

For more information, click HERE.

For more information, visit http://www.aja.org/directors.aspx. All nominations must be received at AJA headquarters no later than November 22, 2010.

Contact Information:

American Jail Association
http://www.aja.org
Rick Neimiller
301-790-3930
rickn@aja.org

Contact Information:

National Gang Intelligence Center
http://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/About/Related-Web-Sites
Jennifer Simon
703) 414-8537
Jennifer.simon@usdoj.gov

(Report from FOX 34 TV News in Lubbock, Texas)

Contact Information:

http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/news/local/story/lubbock-county-detention-center-ribbon/Tl18EO3FnECP0jqnhX_FCg.cspx
Sheriff Kelly Rowe
806-775-1400

The 13th National Conference of Women Working in Corrections and Juvenile Justice will take place September 19–22, 2010, at the Marriott at the Denver Tech Center, Denver, Colorado.

With the theme “Soaring to New Heights,” this year’s conference will offer networking opportunities, dynamic speakers and workshops, professional growth, and personal growth and wellness.

For more information, visit www.womenincorrections.com, www.denver.org,
and www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dentc-denver-marriott-tech-center.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals says searches are needed to prevent the smuggling of contraband into detention centers. The decision replaces a smaller panel's more critical ruling in 2008.Blanket strip searches of incoming jail inmates are constitutional and necessary to prevent the smuggling of contraband into the detention centers, a Federal appeals court ruled recently.

The decision by a full 11-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals replaces a smaller panel's ruling in 2008 that strip searches are so dehumanizing that they violate a person's constitutional rights if conducted without good reason to suspect the individual is carrying drugs or weapons.

The ruling undermined one of several civil rights violations that antiwar protester Mary Bull and eight others alleged in their class-action lawsuit against the city and county of San Francisco. The protesters alleged that they were mistreated by authorities when they were arrested during a November 2002 demonstration.

"This is not a final defeat at all. It opens the case to move forward," attorney Mark E. Merin said of Tuesday's fractured ruling, noting that the arrestees' complaint was headed for trial by jury in federal district court.

Writing for the majority, Judge Sandra S. Ikuta, an appointee of President George W. Bush, said the court had found the strip-search policy "reasonable under the Fourth Amendment." She pointed out that the searches had produced hundreds of caches of drugs, money, shanks, knives and other items that can pose risk to jail personnel and other inmates.

Four separate opinions were filed by the 11 judges, including a dissent written by Judge Sidney R. Thomas and joined by three fellow appointees of President Clinton.

Thomas had written the 2008 ruling against strip-searching without probable cause, saying that "the intrusiveness of body-cavity searches cannot be overstated."

In his dissent, Thomas recounted how Bull had been arrested at a peaceful protest, slammed to a concrete floor during booking, stripped and subjected to a body-cavity search, then left naked in a cell for 11 hours. She was subjected to a second strip search before being released without charges.

At the direction of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is in the beginning stages of developing its Open Government Plan. Because of the importance of your group's role as a significant stakeholder in the actions of the department, we invite you to help us launch this initiative.

Through a temporary website, http://www.opendoj.ideascale.com, DOJ will be soliciting ideas on how to make our activities more transparent.  The department would be grateful if you would share this information with your members, and encourage them to participate in the plan's development.

The goal of the Open Government Plan will be to improve the department's fulfillment of its core mission by making appropriate use of more transparent, participatory and collaborative approaches to its activities. 

The department would appreciate your ideas on areas in which it can improve its services through these means. We encourage you to read more about the Open Government Initiative (http://www.whitehouse.gov/open); think about areas where the department can be more transparent, participatory or collaborative; and submit your suggestions through a public dialogue at http://www.opendoj.ideascale.com -- or through a private email to the Open Government team at opengov@usdoj.gov. The top ideas will be presented to senior leadership and the Open Government Working Group, for consideration for inclusion in the DOJ Open Government Plan.

You can also watch the department's progress at http://www.usdoj.gov/open.

AJA is now part of the Corrections Online Training Collaborative, a partnership between the American Correctional Association, AJA, and Essential Learning, an established online trainingmanagement company. COTC members have joined together to bring high-quality staff training solutions to the correctional industry.

COTC offers correctional staff online training through its Learning Management System. Correctional agencies large and small have been adopting this online training to train correctional staff in a "blended training" approach. Courses are accessed through any computer with Internet access. The training can be started, stopped, and restarted again and again as the learner’s schedule requires. It also can help reduce training costs by saving on travel expenses, staff turnover, and overtime pay.

Other features include:

• Largest catalog of online courses for corrections.
• Testing and survey capabilities.
• Online management of your training program - robust reporting. Add your own courses (without limits) to your training system.
• Meet certification and AJA requirements.

To learn more, visit www.CorrectionsOTC.com; e-mail COTC@essentiallearning.com; or call Janice MacDonald, Corrections Online Training Collaborative, 800-729-9198, ext. 201.