Last year’s wildfires in California destroyed the houses of three Sonoma County Superior County judges, enveloped the Santa Rosa courthouse with smoke for weeks, and forced the deputies assigned to that courthouse to leave and help other first responders. The wildfires closed the courthouse for two weeks, leading to a caseload nightmare and initial confusion …
Read MoreSJI recently released the Grant Guideline for FY 2019. The Grant Guideline appears as part of the National Archives and Records Administration’s Federal Register, and sets forth the administrative, programmatic, and financial requirements for applying for and administering SJI grants. Fiscal Year 2019 Deadlines for Project, Technical Assistance, and Curriculum Adaptation Grants are as follows: 1st Quarter …
Read MoreThe SJI Board of Directors met on September 10, 2018, at the Supreme Court of Nebraska to make decisions on quarterly grant applications and awarded a total of 11 new grants. Five (5) Strategic Initiatives Grants were awarded: the National Judicial Opioid Task Force (NJOTF) to begin critical work on the impact of children and opioids …
Read MoreThe National Judicial Opioid Task Force (NJOTF), in collaboration with the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Training and Technical Assistance Center, held the first of three webinars earlier this month. The series is designed to help participants gain greater knowledge about how state courts can, and already are, working with prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) to …
Read MoreThe Education Support Program (ESP) supports full-time state court judges and court managers to attend courses that enhance their knowledge, skills, and abilities which they could not otherwise attend because of limited state, local, and personal budgets. The National Judicial College (NJC) and the National Center for State Courts/Institute for Court Management (ICM) will administer …
Read MoreThe National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the SJI-funded Community Engagement in the State Courts Initiative is supporting up to six pilot projects to learn more about how courts can best engage the public to improve trust and confidence in the judiciary. The selected courts will receive as much as $30,000 in funding; technical …
Read More