Representative areas for CCTAP Assistance and examples of CCTAP reports include:
Special Initiative to Promote Tribal-State Judicial Coordination
The project will continue its special initiative to promote increased coordination among tribal and state courts regarding issues of mutual concern. Continued assistance will be provided to the New Mexico Tribal-State Judicial Consortium of the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts to support regional meetings of tribal-state judicial system officials. Project services are available to other Tribal and state courts interested in undertaking similar efforts.
Special Initiative to Promote COOP (Continunity of Operations) Planning
The CCTAP services include a special initiative to promote COOP (Continuity of Operations Planning) for courts in conjunction with the other justice agencies on which they depend. The CCTAP’s COOP planning services address the range of emergency situations that may require activation of a COOP plan, including those caused by natural disasters, fires, and public health epidemics. To provide a foundation for court planning in this area, Planning for Emergencies: Immediate Events and Their Aftermath: A Guideline for Local Courts, a Template for Assessing the Adequacy of COOP Planning in Local Courts; and Guidelines for Pandemic Emergency Preparedness Planning: A Road Map for Courts, produced by an eight-member, multidisciplinary Task Force representing expertise in the areas of judicial processes, public health administration, law enforcement, and judicial system-public health system coordination. The "Road Map" was published by BJA in March 2007 and is available:
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/pandemic/pandemic_main.html
and www.american.edu/justice/influenza.php.
As a corollary to the Road Map , AU has developed a multi-media presentation on pandemic emergency preparedness based on the Guide and incorporating materials prepared by various contributors to the BJA-sponsored Symposium on Justice System Preparedness for Pandemic Emergencies, held in Chicago in May 2006. This training package is designed for distribution to Judicial Education offices in each of the state court systems and to State Administrative Agencies for use in their respective in-state training activities.
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Kim Ball Bureau of Justice Assistance 202.307.2076 kim.ball@usdoj.gov |
Joseph Trotter/Caroline Cooper Justice Programs Office 202.885.2875 justice@american.edu |
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