The Board met on June 16, 2014, to make decisions on quarterly grant applications and awarded a total of 11 grants. Two (2) Project Grants were approved: support to improve language access for Native Americans in state courts for the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts; and a court security and response awareness project …
Read MoreDuring its June 16, 2014 meeting, the Board of Directors awarded a FY 2014 Strategic Initiatives Grant to the Human Trafficking and the State Courts Collaborative. SJI established human trafficking as a Priority Investment Area in FY 2013. This led to the creation of the Collaborative to address this critical issue. The Collaborative currently consists …
Read MoreIn late 2013, SJI, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), made resources available to the National Judicial College (NJC) to support a series of webcasts addressing human trafficking, notable decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, and managing self-represented litigants (SJI-12-E-072). These recorded webcasts are now available online and are accessible for continuing …
Read MoreThe recent release of The Politics of Restraint: State Judicial Leadership in the 21st Century, authored by Chief Justice (ret.) Jeff Amestoy of the Vermont Supreme Court marks the 11th paper in the Harvard Executive Session series. The author discusses how judicial leaders should understand their role as extending beyond protecting and enhancing the budgetary …
Read MoreThe Language Access Basic Training (LABT) is a downloadable interactive training, which serves as an introduction to language access for all court employees. It is a collaborative project of the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) through the New Mexico Center for Language Access (NMCLA), funded by SJI and supported by the National …
Read MoreSJI support has assisted the National Association for Court Management (NACM) in providing training and educational content at its annual and midyear conferences for court managers, administrators, and judicial officers. Recently, NACM posted online educational sessions from it 2014 midyear conference, held in early February. Video presentations from more than a dozen sessions are available …
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