- Articulating a united vision and determining the scope and focus of projects
- Define and sanction project objectives and timetables
- Appropriately assess risk and set quality expectations
- Garner support from other stakeholders and decision-makers
- Monitor planning, implementation, and management
- Define integrated justice operational requirements
- Oversee systems acquisition
- Resolve implementation obstacles
- Review system performance
- Focus on enhancements, improvements, and next phases
- Provide leadership, review business processes and policies, analyze technical environments and solutions
Why Governance Structures are Critical to Integrated Justice Success
- Justice integration projects are difficult and need strong leadership to guide the process
- Integration is strategic and involves multiple organizations, multiple budget cycles, and multiple funding streams
- Integration involves independent agencies, elected officials, and separate branches of government. The agencies include both justice and non-justice agencies that operate separate systems for collecting and maintaining data critical to carrying out diverse missions
- Integration involves significant investments of time and resources and must include stakeholder input
- There are major implications with justice integration: policy, operational, organizational, legal, cultural, personal, managerial, and technical
- A governance structure ensures a place at the table for all relevant organizations and users and ensures equality in decision-making
- A governance structure provides a recognized vehicle to strategically plan for integrated justice system