Do you have access to share?

Uh no, not yet.

Okay.

Hello, everybody.

We're just waiting on a few more people.

Okay.

I think people are kind of start to filter in here, but we can get started.

Um so welcome.

And I know we're just waiting for Commissioner Onaya.

But um good.

And I know some of the people that were on earlier meetings are on this one too.

So just appreciate you kind of being patient while we go through this.

We just wanted to do like an overview of the task course and everything.

So appreciate your patience.

Okay, perfect.

All right, I think we can get started.

Uh very good.

Commissioner Umaio, would you mind calling this meeting to order?

Absolutely.

Thanks, Amy.

Hi, everyone.

Thanks for joining us.

Um, we're gonna be calling the Chicago Cook Um Cook County Violence Against Uh Women Task Force, specifically the court systems and programs working group uh meeting to order.

So we will um ensure that uh we take uh note of who is available.

Amy, are you gonna be calling out forks or are you gonna you're taking note of who's available?

Yeah, so um I do just want everyone to know I am recording this meeting and it will be transcribed, um, but we do not need we are not going to take role.

Okay, perfect.

Yeah.

Great.

Um, so I was made aware that we may be gonna uh we were gonna have two elected other elected officials on the call.

I don't see them on there, but we may have representatives from obviously the clerk's office, public guardian.

Um I believe uh Alder Woman Um Money Scott was gonna be joining us, Alder Woman Sam Nugents and Commissioner Gaynor, but we may have some of their their team members on board um and in this discussion.

So I appreciate you all joining us.

Um we will begin with a public testimony.

So just um for the record, um public testimony requests or written comments um can be submitted up to 24 hours in advance of the meeting to Nancy.negrete at cook countyil.gov.

So um Nancy, uh, can you please um let us know if there's any public comment or any written comments that were submitted for this task force?

No uh public comment for this meeting.

Wonderful.

Okay.

Um so we're gonna go around and do a quick um introduction just so that everybody knows who is on um on this call.

We'll go around and um folks will do a quick introduction of themsel themselves, so with their name, their title and organization, and I will choose a random person and then we if we do a popcorn style, that would be great.

Can we actually have Sarah Hawkins start us off?

Okay.

Um thank you, Commissioner.

Good afternoon.

I'm Sarah Hawkins.

I am the director of the domestic relations division for the Cook County Public Guardian's Office.

Thank you.

I can go next.

Um, I'm Amy Melanasky.

I um am on Commissioner Donna Miller's staff and have been one of the point of contact persons for this uh task force.

So I'll pop corn it to Nancy.

Good afternoon, Nancy Negretti, policy director for Commissioner Naya.

I'll popcorn it to Janet.

Good afternoon, Jana Hunter, Associate Clerk of the Family Bureau, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Club County, Mariana Sparados.

And I'll popcorn it to Carmen I love you, Janet.

Carmen Navarro Dracone, uh volunteering with uh Chicago 77 to work on this task force.

Uh 30 uh three years in county government, and I'm looking forward to the work you're all be doing here.

Thank you.

And I'll uh send it over to Ro.

Hi everyone, my name is Rosauda Boca Negra, better known as Roe, because it's easy to say.

Chief of Staff for Alderman Silvanata, that is 23rd ward.

Katie, it's for you.

Thanks, Ro.

Uh, my name is Katie Dunn.

Um I'm with Chicago 77 uh with Carmen and a few others were volunteering on this task force uh to just help facilitate.

Um and uh we're here as a resource and uh please reach out anytime.

Um let me see, Brian, did you go yet?

Uh I did not.

Thanks, Katie.

Brian Cecey, Director of Policy for Cook County, Commissioner Donna Miller.

Uh, and I will send it over to Christina.

Thanks, Brian.

Christina Kappa, Director of Policy for the Justice Advisory Council, and I'm joined by my colleague Kayla, who I'll let introduce herself.

Hi, everyone, good afternoon.

Kayla Posley, policy analyst for the Cook County Justice Advisory Council, and I'll pass it to Hannah.

Hi everyone, Hannah Fearley, Chief of Staff to Commissioner Gaynor.

Um, I'll pass it to um Daniel.

Have you gone?

Uh no, thank you, Dan.

Uh Danny Castaneda, Deputy Commissioner for Gender-Based Violence and Human Services at the uh City of Chicago Department of Family and Support Services.

Uh and sorry, I lost track of who hasn't gone.

Clipper, do you want to go?

Thank you.

Hi, everybody.

Um, I'm Cliff Helm.

I'm the legal team for the Office of Chief Judge for the Circuit Court.

Uh, and I'll pass to Kate Nolan.

Hi, I'm Kate Nolan.

I'm also on the legal staff of the Chief Judge's office, and I'll pass it to Renata.

Hi, everybody, and I am on the legal staff um for the domestic violence division in the office of the chief judge with presiding judge, Judith Rice.

And I will pass it to Ann McCord Rogers.

Hi, everybody, I'm Ann McCord Rogers.

I'm the chief of the Special Victims Bureau of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.

I will pass it to Katie Pelleck.

Hi guys, I am Katie Pellick.

I am the supervisor for the public defenders office here at 555 West Harrison.

Um I've completely lost track of who hasn't spoken yet.

Um so it could be Leslie.

Leslie, maybe sure.

I actually sorry, I can't change my name, but I go by Chase.

So yep, sorry.

Uh I'm Chase Gordon and I am a supervising attorney at the public guardian's office.

And I muted myself in the juvenile division.

So I work for the public guardians office.

Thank you.

Are we missing Kim?

Uh yeah, I'm Kim at Strom Schiller with um Copa.

I'm the director and of investigations for the Special Victims Unit.

Great Chela.

Hello.

Uh my name is Chella Garcia.

I am the head organizer for Little Village Community Council.

Great.

Am I missing anyone?

Okay.

Looks like we're should be good.

Okay.

Um so we will uh begin with a presentation um of the overview of this task force um and the executive meeting updates.

So I'm gonna turn it over uh to Katie Dunn, who is gonna lead that um section.

Katie, floor is yours.

Thank you.

Um thank you, Commissioner.

Um, just to start, I know um some of the commissioners in Alderman might be joining um either this uh later or um our next meeting, but I just want to say thank you to Commissioner Naya um and everybody for all of their efforts.

Um some of you are probably already sick of hearing me today.

We have uh have had some back-to-back meetings today.

Um, but today um we're kicking off all the working groups for the violence against women task force.

Um, so we're really gonna start from the beginning.

Um obviously this group is an incredible group of experts.

Um and so really what we're trying to do is facilitate the conversation, be a resource, try and figure out how to move the kind of this massive effort forward.

Um, but in preparation, uh we had conversations with a couple hundred uh people across the city, county, and state, um, off-the-record conversations for their input, uh, just the piece together uh where some things are at.

Things have obviously changed, they're always evolving.

Um so just with that caveat, some of these conversations were over the last two years, and um that is why we need everybody's input um as we move forward.

So I'm gonna um present, like I said, I apologize if this is your second time seeing this or even third.

Um, but uh we really want to um start uh from um the beginning of those who are just joining us for the first time.

Um so the uh and hopefully that is a working.

I'm not doing presenters view.

Um just to reiterate, we had um conversations.

Um reach out to me just about two years ago.

Um Commissioner Miller um reached out to us next.

Um both were seeing an increase of violent crimes against women in their jurisdictions, and we're concerned about the data um that the city of Chicago and uh the Southlands were experiencing, or the the um tragic cases.

And so uh pretty organically, we've all come together for this effort.

Um the conversations have been with survivors with loved ones, um, and really with the subject matter experts across the board.

Uh, we're trying to put together a whole government approach and create a model for a coordinated system.

Um, so as the Chicago Tribune reported, Illinois uh per capita rate of deaths caused by a spouse or an intimate partner is exceeded the combined rates of the states of New York and California.

Um, and so that's why this task force is um has received a lot of attention.

Once I if you're sharing your presentation, I cannot see it.

Okay, you know what it's saying something went wrong.

So hold on, let me uh try once again.

Um Amy, it's saying so like error, something went wrong.

I'm gonna jump off and jump right back on and hopefully that corrected everybody.

So if that you can also try to send it to Nancy and see if we can get it up.

Okay, you know what?

It worked perfectly the last two meetings.

I'm wondering maybe if it's just because I yeah, we'll take a bringing second break.

No, no worries.

Yeah, it should be should allow you to share, but yeah, we can just see.

Yeah, because Amy, you have it also, right?

I believe so.

Yeah, she might have to send it again.

Yeah, because there wasn't an issue, but I think if she didn't log off and log back on before this one, if she kept the computer on the whole time, it may hit.

Oh, maybe, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's just see if that works.

Otherwise, she can just send it to me.

But um, well, we have a second though, just for people, I know recognizing a lot of people were already on the meetings today, um, but just kind of how today is gonna go.

Katie will do her presentation and then kind of around like 1:30, we'll open up for discussion and just kind of talk if anybody has any questions, um, things to bring up, things for the next meeting, and then different assignments and next steps.

So and the executive meeting is tomorrow in person in the boardroom.

Um, so who's ever able to come to that is great.

Um, there'll be you know more presentations and we're just kind of starting to get a feel of what this will look like.

So that should be that should be good.

Well, Katie is doing it.

Does anyone just have any questions right away that they'd like to ask or overview questions or anything?

Pretty pretty straightforward.

Yeah, we appreciate everyone being patient with us.

I feel like I've been talking to a lot of you via email, so it's nice to see your faces.

Um, but we can I'm back.

I'm sorry about that.

Uh no, no worries.

I apologize.

Um second.

Okay, so hopefully this is working.

Okay.

Can everybody see that?

Yes.

Okay.

I apologize.

When you press the uh space bar, which usually, you know, for presenting, it mutes you team.

So back in back in order.

So as I was mentioning, uh, we're trying to create uh a new model for a coordinated system.

That's from a lot of input from some of you and so many of uh your colleagues.

Um the tribune, as I mentioned, had shared that we have the you know higher murder rate than California anywhere combined.

Um so we do know that this is a really important topic area and truly a public crisis that we're experiencing.

Um and so um as I mentioned, Commissioner Miller and Alderman Tabaris had both both reached out.

Um, and really we just started uh development phase where we were all trying to talk to as many people as possible.

Uh Commissioner Miller had previously had a um a resolution for a public hearing, which was held last summer.

Um, and then really that rolled into where we're at now, which um both uh leaders uh sponsored resolutions in their respective um board of commissioners and city council um and the Illinois leaders were invited to join, and we began efforts um in uh 2026.

And so we have some really great partners, and honestly, this list is a uh is is a growing list right now.

Um everybody is working pro bono on this uh so just to kind of give um everybody some credit.

Everybody's really excited to work with everybody on this call and all of your respective agencies and really coalesce around this issue.

Um, people have little um parts of it right now, um, but to bring everybody together and all the universities together that have um current efforts um is gonna be really powerful and hopefully give us a lot of momentum as we move uh big initiatives forward.

Um, so the government partners, which is what the task force is focused on, um estate agencies, um, including the Secretary of State, Cook County offices, the City of Chicago departments, and then local governments are also you know starting to join these efforts.

Obviously, I think I said before there's a hundred and seventy-six, I think different jurisdictions, even more law enforcement agencies in Cook County, and so really by trying to work together to improve the system, um, you will all be helping your counterparts everywhere, whether or not they're at the table or not.

Um unfortunately, we don't have too much data around uh domestic related crimes um for Cook County as a whole.

Um the closest we have to that is the Cook County, I'm sorry, the City of Chicago violence reduction dashboard, which is obviously only pertinent to Cook County or just City of Chicago data.

Um in 2025, uh while fatal shootings decreased by 33 percent, domestic related fatal shootings increased by 50 percent.

Um also in looking at the um what the victims' race and ethnicity were over eight 88 percent of all homicide victims were minorities, 71% were African American residents, and 17% were Hispanic Latino, and 10% were white.

Um, when you look at fatal and non-fatal shootings, those numbers increase.

Um, so it's pretty startling disparities.

The Office of Inspector General of Chicago uh has a really great dashboard and um by just four different criteria out of the hundreds of 911 call codes, um, it equates to 336 calls per day for domestic related calls.

Um that's a very um probably understated number.

Um, and so just with what we know, it's one in four priority level one calls for the Chicago police department, um, which is an enormous part of their manpower and resources.

Um this this is the group of experts, so I don't have to explain um so much of this to you, but just um this was for the general public, so bear with me.

But um, one of the um the issues with really violence against women and figuring out how to come up with a comprehensive plan is that it's not under one umbrella, it's across civil courts, it's across different divisions of the courthouse uh of the course of the courts, the courthouses, um it is city agencies and local agencies, state agencies, and even federal agencies that have some statutory obligations.

It's a really comprehensive and expansive amount of departments that need to be all working in a coordinated fashion to really create a system.

And so what we've heard from so many department heads, commissioners, leaders is really that there's not currently something that's bringing everybody together.

And so by this task force, we're hoping to at least lay the groundwork for something that we could build in the future, but really start connecting these points in the system by data, but also for those who are directly impacted and trying to seek care and services from the different systems.

So right now we're in the uh basically planning development phase of the task force.

So we have executive leadership committee meetings that are monthly.

We have externalists, um, including Anna, um, who was last month.

Uh we have um some a really great group joining us tomorrow.

So the next executive meeting is tomorrow at the Cook County Board boardroom, floor five, 10 a.m.

Um, there's a teams link on the Cook County board website.

Um, we could share with everybody.

So please join us.

Um in June, we'll be finalizing the reports and recommendations and also the progress that's been made.

Um and then in July, there's public hearings uh scheduled that will dissect and deliberate the report on both uh the city and the county sides.

Um so as kind of stated, the main deliverable is to create a unified victim-centered system.

Um the other aspect that we want to look at is first responder safety and health.

Um and this is something that that's personal to some of us, but also it's something that we're hearing in the feedback.

Um, if they're really dangerous calls, but also uh these domestic calls are playing a role in um the mental health crisis of the first responders.

Uh also we want to obviously look at reducing violent crime and victimizations across the board in Chicago and in uh throughout Cook County.

So the executive committee is tasked with three main focus areas um transparency and accountability, data sharing and record access, and then the development of a legislative agenda.

Um, so much of what we heard is either impeded or um non-allowable under legislation orders, um, case law, uh it just seems there's a lot of impediments to data sharing and collaboration.

And so part of that legislation will be to hopefully break down those barriers, provide more transparency, and um help create this unified system.

Um, the data sharing and transparency um is really something that will be reported up from these working groups.

Um, and the executive committee will incorporate the input of these working groups into their into their final report as well.

Um so the working groups are six working groups, um, high priority orders, um, data research and court systems and programs, this were working group.

Um, there's three others that are um um more specific um to certain um areas.

One is first responders, others is the training and policy development, and then survivorhood is really our uh partnership with a group of survivors that have been helping us.

We have community meetings scheduled, uh we have partnerships with um organizations and development, um, and we're really building out something that will hopefully be um uh a uh be able to collaborate with the system in the future.

Um, so today um just because I want to leave some time for um discussion since the experts are actually on this call, uh, just have a couple slides about the court system.

Um so um the main goal of the working group is to survey the court system, their programs and analyze impact and violence against women and vulnerable communities, um, what's working, what what we need more of, how can we um develop collaborations that will uh amplify some of the work that's already being done?

Um so just to kind of give uh an overview of what we're looking at.

Court system um is the criminal court system and the civil court system.

Um the civil court system is um where most of the orders of protection are filed, um, and also is domestic relations court, which is what that hearing was about last summer.

Um, and then obviously the programs under the chief judge.

Um there's survivors and and victims on on both sides are also in um justice involved as well.

So to really just look at this holistically what the program's impact are can be on both sides.

And then also I guess it should be pretty fair to say that the court system in itself, each courthouse has its own.

I think Renata shared that earlier, kind of has its own different systems in place and different partners in place.

So to really analyze what is going on, where and how we can learn from what's working.

So these are the initial priorities.

So these are from the initial conversations up until this point.

So the priorities of this working group is to examine the courts system response to violence against women.

So not just domestic violence court, but what's happening in the other courts and how we can create a unified system.

How to increase services to victims whose cases are reassigned to domestic relations division.

And then also the suburban courthouses.

Some of the suburban courthouses, I think mostly in the Southland.

So to really just kind of figure out where the partnerships are, where they're needed, and where the resources might come from going forward.

This is something that the public policy lab and impact partners out of Northwestern.

They all have PhDs in this.

It's human centered design.

And so they'll be kind of guiding these efforts.

Analyze current points of contact, the forms, the legal filings, arrest reports, resources, everything basically that needs a probably a group look.

And then review risk assessment tools.

Renata had mentioned one this morning in the high priority meeting that is for criminal cases.

But really look at the current tool and the criminal uh the criminal side of things, the PSA is what I was talking about in this slide.

Obviously, the um the one that's being used in domestic violence court, and then also research evidence-based models.

Um identify practice to eliminate fees, assist with case disposition, reduce case processing and failure to appears and improve victim witness and cooperation, and then create instructoral instructional tools and resource guides for victims who are entering the system.

Um it's obviously a very overwhelming place um to walk in the doors to any of these courthouses.

Um the current data dashboard, just for people uh especially that are newer to the courts.

Um I will share this later, and that this is some really good information and just kind of get an overview.

So the violence reduction dashboard is that data that I shared earlier from the crime lab in the city of Chicago.

Uh the Cook County Justice Dashboard is from Loyola.

Um, and that looks at the criminal system.

Uh the civic committee has a data hub that they're uh they've just been in develop uh development for.

Um they're looking to maybe expand to domestic violence, and so we'll be in discussions with them.

Um, but they have a crossover city and county data, and then the chief judge's weekly dashboard for people that are not um aware he uh that uh a website is updated once a week with the dashboard that tracks the impacts of the uh pretrial fairness act.

Um so with that, we're really just um wanted to start hearing some people's input and here are just some suggested discussion questions um that we can um follow or disregard.

Um so I guess what I'll do is just leave it up to any questions for now, and then we can get to those uh these discussion points.

Yeah, does anyone have any overview questions or anything that they want to discuss right off the bat?

Amy, I just had a quick clarifying question, and I'm sorry.

Um I've seen someone raise their hand if they were.

No numbers, that's the proper way to do it.

Um no, my quick question is just web.

Um I I remember when we at the first executive meeting, um there I believe that we were told that these meetings would not be public, whereas they would report out at the public executive committee meetings.

I just wanted to confirm whether or not that's still true.

So yes, we were kind of unsure about that, but under OMA, because this is um a government agency related task force, it does have to be publicly noticed and open to the public.

So with this meeting and with the other working group meetings, we notice it, but as you can see right now, it's just internal people that we have invited.

Technically, anyone could come and join this.

Um, but yes, so if there are meetings that need to, you know, if there's something more specific, you know, can always meet and reach out to us and we can kind of discuss that.

But these meetings under OMA do have to be um publicly noticed and open to the public.

I really appreciate that update, Amy.

Thank you.

And then the other thing I just wanted to say um something to keep in mind based on the data that um Katie just shared.

Right, and this is something that we're learning through um some of the initiation on the Illinois fatality review board is to keep in mind that some of that data is reflective of homicides cases, things that happen that never interface with the court system or a justice system.

Um so just in terms of like it the reason I say that is because part of this could also be an effort to increase um outreach to survivors and education to survivors and making sure that survivors understand the different points at which they can seek assistance because a lot of survivors don't.

Um that is yeah, so I think something from these meetings as well, like Renanda, you and I have have talked about this.

There are things that are already in place.

Like we don't want to reinvent the wheel.

We don't want to duplicate anything.

So, like if there's some there's things that are already, you know, happening and we can just do, you know, an additional job of getting that out to people.

Like I think that's would also be something great that would come from these meetings.

Um, and just kind of like we know that there's gaps, and like sometimes we just don't want anything to be put on all one person's plate.

So that's kind of where this kind of comes in is just filling in those gaps, like what we can do, recommendations from each of the departments, and um, you know, just having more of like a collective conversation.

Like I feel like a lot of the times, like I'll talk to someone from one agency and hear from another one.

So this way we're kind of all together and can get um more clarity if that if that helps.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thank you, Amy.

Yeah, yeah.

Um Chilla, if you have your hand raised, you can go ahead.

Yes, thank you.

Um so this is my first time coming to uh one of these meetings.

I really appreciate that.

Uh this is open to the public and for um people that are uh community organizers and leaders.

Um one of the things that, and I don't know if this is the appropriate time of questions, but one of the things that I struggle with when I'm assisting women that are in this situation of domestic violence and trying to locate resources for for them.

Uh, I have found that it is so much more difficult if the woman does not have any children or does not have her children with her.

Um I don't know if this is uh of this particular group of women are uh addressed, but I have found that it is extremely difficult to find housing, not so much resources, but shelter and housing and programs that uh women who are re-entering or coming out of the emergency domestic violence shelters for some type of transitional living.

It's um become become increasingly difficult throughout the last couple of years.

I don't know if these women are being included or if anybody's addressed that that's one of the gaps and the bridges that affect women who are incarcerated.

Um I do believe, and um you know, folks on the call can correct me if I'm wrong, Katie.

I do believe there is another task force that is addressing that not that maybe that's specific, but in general, survivors, um, and I think that that would uh fall under that specific working group, I should say, um, that really addresses like those barriers that exist for uh women or other vulnerable communities that are facing um uh being a survivor and trying to, you know, have some uh additional support system from different not only um organizations like 501c3s, but overall government entities really stepping up.

And Katie, I'm not sure if you wanted to uh comment on that.

Yeah, um Miss Garcia, I just shared my um email and the chat and um we I can reach out to you.

We'd we'd love to talk to you more about what you're what you're experiencing.

Um you bring up a really good point, um, and that this task force is pretty timely and that there is a um kind of a tidal wave of federal funding cuts.

Um so there's ever time to bring government together and figure out how to communicate and share resources, it's now.

Um I do I did hear that the temporary housing um grants were being cut to the city of Chicago.

Um so I imagine that that housing is really gonna be unfortunately a crisis that's gonna uh um impact even more women and families going forward.

Um, and so I think um hopefully it's something that you know kind of bringing this to the table, and we appreciate your your input is is just to put this on everybody's radar and and when we comes to local funding priority prioritization that it's um that it's a discussion point because I I do think these federal cuts are gonna have really deep impacts for years to come.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, anybody else have any questions or anything they want to share on their background or anything?

Um I guess like in the discussion, you know, um, and I know it it's hard in an open meeting open meetings act, now everybody's used to used to that.

So um kind of bear with us here as we figure out how to best communicate and get everybody's input going forward.

But um, if anybody has any thoughts that they would be willing to share on just these priorities, um what do you think we're missing?

Obviously, the court system is a massive uh um undertaking.

I think it's the second largest unified court in the world or some country or world.

So uh we're not gonna change everything overnight.

Um so we really want to look at what we can get done.

And then obviously, you know, some long-term uh moonshot kind of ideas.

Um, so if anybody um has anything they want to share, you can do it now or please reach out anytime.

Um we could add your input to kind of the working draft as we're moving forward.

Kate, I know in the um discussion before, I know that was data and research, but I think there is someone on from the clerk here just with the question that you were asking before.

So if you want to bring that up, Janet, um, if you're on, I believe.

Yeah, thanks, Amy.

Um, Janet, I was just mentioning that on the data and research um committee, there was no clerk representation, and just that that was very important piece of the the data committee because obviously your office has keeps the records and has the ability to respond to questions about um clerk uh court data that uh you know the OCJ doesn't necessarily you know know how much time and effort it would take to you know respond to certain data requests.

So I just want to make sure that your office is aware of the the data committee and is able to join if if that's something you guys have the ability to participate in.

I will make sure I share this information and then I'm sure we'll give someone aside.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thanks, Janet.

Katie, I have a general question.

Um so on this current slide, it says read uh previous reports and respond to survey.

Um is is there an active survey right now that the that you're encouraging the working group to respond to?

Is that something that we can um you know uplift at this moment?

Um that's gonna go out um to all the working groups uh later today, um, just to kind of get input that uh people might have missed on the calls.

Um and so, and then also just the previous reports we're gonna circulate, uh, the previous uh domestic violence committee uh under the former chief judge and an Apple Seed report and just some just some things that have been shared with me along the way.

Some of you might be cited or even the authors of of them, but just uh for those of us that you know are still learning, uh, they might be helpful.

So I was gonna circulate those later with the help of Amy.

Um so sorry, I do not have that ready to share at this moment.

No, no worries.

I just wanted to make sure.

And I'm sorry, I kind of jumped a little bit.

I know we're still in the discussion part.

I think for um for us it would be beneficial if we go back to that slide where we had the priorities.

So we can because some of these questions are are are clearly directed to those priorities.

So things like, you know, are there any other aspects of the court systems or programming that we should be considering?

Um Thank you.

Yes, we'll leave it up for anybody who has any questions or any other input before we move on to closing out the meeting um and next steps.

Daniel I saw I saw what you shared um hopefully uh we'll have that and I think just to give kind of an overview like this is our third meeting today so you know we're we are still kind of figuring this out but how I'm kind of thinking how this will go is so we have this meeting and then I think a good way just to keep it you know consistent and going forward and not everyone being like well what should I be doing is giving um like specific assignments almost or you know questions or um overviews to to each department um then that way when we come to the next meeting can be like oh like this is what we got brought up in the last meeting this was the assignment and we can talk about it in this in this meeting just if that makes a little more sense or clarification and again we'll kind of see how this how this goes um as we're as we're going but I think that's just the idea that we we have going forward if that if that makes sense if no one has any other first time being involved I think that would be very beneficial for me.

So thank you for offering that yeah that's the thing too I think we really just want to give everyone just like a clear cut like this is what we expect this is this would be great this would be you know really helpful for the next meeting to present just to keep everyone you know in line and engaged and not giving too much you know vague overlook on on what we want but that's really that's what I'm thinking so um there's no other questions or discussions uh may I just kind of uh just one thing just looking at this I I'd be more than happy to look at this even further and see if there's any additional feedback from my end but something that I feel like we need to figure out how to input it may be part of one of these bullet points but we have been pushing really hard for navigators in the systems either through the state attorney I know there was a a new um amendment brought forward I was a co-sponsor but Commissioner Duggan brought forward you know additional support systems and partnerships with nonforprofit organizations for support uh within the courthouses um so they this may be part of you know increasing the services to victims um uh or maybe part of like the instructional tool or resource guides like even including like that wraparound type of services um so that may just be something that we need to kind of incorporate um because we do see that it's extremely necessary to have um that partnership oftentimes you know government entities can't do it all but like figuring out how we can uh partner up with organizations that are doing the work and help them out especially during a time when a lot of the funding is being decreased um having you know the county step up or the city et cetera and so in supporting that um would be would be really important fantastic um yeah we'll definitely add that commissioner um and I'll follow up with uh Nancy just get more information about what's been shared so far um well if nobody has any info we could just go to next dax I think um you know really I um like Amy said we're trying to figure out how to do open meetings act and have frank conversations and kind of balance a lot of different efforts and and opinions uh and move everything forward together um so there is a um an email that I'll share with the group that is the um uh for the task force um you could obviously reach out as well uh to me anytime but um this is where we're gonna keep all documents and just kind of keep them one repository everything that's been shared um Amy has the um we'll be organizing the working groups and and the meeting notes and everything um into SharePoint um but really I think we have to meet about seven more times six or seven more times until the June report um and so if anybody has any topic areas or presentations or anything that they would like to share uh we'd be happy to uh to and you know uh schedule around your availability um and really uh we are uh scheduling the next meetings around uh commissioners and the aldermen's uh combined schedules and so we'll be following up shortly about the next steps and next meeting um but really we just would like to get some input um on on the direction um and that could be by by email or phone call any time um but besides that I think we uh we can give people some time back uh we didn't know how much time to incorporate for public comment so um was um mom is asked for

And really uh we are uh scheduling the next meetings around uh commissioners and the aldermen's uh combined schedules and so we'll be following up shortly about the next steps and next meeting um but really we just would like to get some input um on on the direction um and that could be by by email or phone call anytime um but besides that I think we uh we can give people some time back uh we didn't know how much time to incorporate for public comment so um was um mom is asked for yeah that sounds great and then if anyone has anything specific you know and Renata I know you shared something earlier um to me with the high priority so if there's anything like that specific to like court system and programs um I will be recording all these meetings transcribing them and kind of summarizing but any additional materials that you think go along with this um just so we can kind of compile everything together would be really great um and then going forward with these meetings that's kind of the goal like any materials share shared can all be together in that so trying to keep everything organized um and then I'll be sending out an email just to kind of recap these meetings next steps assignments things like that um but if no one has any other questions or discussion points then could probably um yeah it's Katie said get some time back so no one has anything okay sure okay well thank you all and we'll be following up over email thanks everyone share and I if you just want to adjourn the meeting officially sure thank you so um I'll take uh a mover to adjourn Carmen and then we'll get Katie to second that all those in favor signify by saying aye.

All those knees okay we're officially adjourned.

Thank you everyone thank you thank you commissioner thank you