JusticePoint staff updated the Sawyer County CJCC on pretrial services, diversion, recovery court caseloads and several funding opportunities tied to opioid‑settlement and Treatment Alternatives and Diversion (TAD) programs.

Becky of JusticePoint reported 106 people on pretrial supervision and a 12-person pretrial wait list that she expects to clear as staff capacity stabilizes. “We are at, a 106 on pretrial. We have 12 people on the wait list,” Becky said. She reported nine active diversion participants, two referrals pending and one successful diversion completion in March. Recovery court had nine active participants and one termination pending.

Becky said JusticePoint is fully staffed for pretrial and diversion, and staff are working with the district attorney’s office to standardize referral timelines so referrals do not get lost. She also summarized training and conference plans: the WATCP conference in April requires registration by April 12, but JusticePoint has not yet registered staff because current TAD funding is reduced; All Rise in May may be a better fit for training the new case manager.

On deflection and opioid abatement funds, Becky said a March deflection training drew 78 attendees, community navigators are in place, and law enforcement is partnering on outreach and overdose-prevention bag distribution. She said Leilani Nino, identified in the meeting as the opioid settlement grant administrator, wants the CJCC to pursue additional funding and spend remaining settlement dollars by May 31. “She really wants us to pursue future funding efforts… We have until May 31 to spend our remaining funds,” Becky said.

Becky also discussed several grants in development: a $100,000 Reaching Rural subaward (contract currently at the Bureau of Justice Assistance for review), a $200,000 MAT implementation grant with a May 15 application deadline, and a COSEP opportunity around $1 million that had been retracted but is expected to be reissued. She reported progress on Building Bridges site visits (New Mexico detention centers) and local jail program enhancements including Ojibwe language and culture classes and GED completions. JusticePoint asked CJCC members for ideas, volunteers and donations for community outreach and post-release transitional programming.

No formal CJCC policy action or vote on these funding items was taken at the meeting; members were asked to consider whether to register staff for conferences and to begin conceptualizing crisis-response programming as a potential use of settlement funds.