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Community Justice Department

The Community Justice Department includes crime victim advocates, pretrial support specialists and staff working to safely reduce the jail population and improve systems for those impacted by interpersonal violence. They lead and support multi-agency partnerships and projects by convening coalitions and working groups and strategically aligning activities across the justice and crisis response systems. CJD has three divisions:

Court Support Services

This division supports pretrial defendants by providing reminders about court dates, assisting with compliance with pretrial conditions of release, helping to access community programs and services, connecting with community service and work placement, and addressing non-compliance issues. The division’s Community Service Program connects people convicted of crimes with community service placements and monitoring. The Public Safety Assessment Program assesses each defendant’s current and prior criminal conduct, focusing on violent offenses and previous failure to appear in court to provide judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys additional information about whether a defendant can succeed in the community while awaiting trial. The Pretrial Services Program and Pretrial Assistance to Support Success Program, or “PASS,” are pretrial compliance monitoring programs that include drug and alcohol testing and GPS monitoring.
Justice Initiatives

This division works to improve the criminal legal system in Missoula County by building partnerships and leading efforts to address systemic problems that can cause harm to victims and defendants and create challenges for our community. The division provides leadership and coordination to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, Just Response, Diversion and Reentry programs, Partners for Reintegration, the Family Violence Intervention & Education Session (FVIES) and related committees.

 

The division also provides targeted study and analysis program development, funding development and management, project implementation, and specialized training to support multi-agency initiatives to increase community safety, improve healing for survivors of crime, safely reduce the jail population, increase court appearances for those accused, and address racial inequities in the criminal legal system.


 

Practicum & Internships

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406-258-3830

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317 Woody St. Missoula, MT 59802

8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday

This department is funded by the Community Justice Department line item on your tax bill.