OUTLOOK

C O M M I T T E E R E P O R T SNomination/ElectionCommitteeThis past year the committee completed the election of threeboard member positions (of Region II Representative,Statewide Representative and President-Elect). Congratulationsto our election winners: Ken Burn, Region IIRepresentative; Tim Schumacher, Statewide Representativeand to Tracy Burke-Carriere who is our new PresidentElect.In the fall 2013 Conference the positions of Secretary,Treasurer, and Region 1 and Region 3 Representative willbe open for election. Region 1 consists of the followingCircuits: 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22 and Cook County.Region 3 consists of the following Circuits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and20.The following qualifications are necessary to run for office:Full membership in the Association, Active participation incommittees or special projects for two years, appropriatejudicial officer approval to attend, travel, and devote timeto the Association business, and verification of qualificationsby the Nominations/Elections Committee. If you would likemore information about these elections, or about becominga committee member, please contact Frank Morelli at847-377-3646 or Ken Burn at 815-772-5276.Also congratulations are due to Deborah Norman fromLake County who was appointed Representative Chair.Program CommitteeThe Program Committee would like to report that wehave had two very successful conferences in 2012.We want to send a special thank you to the Fourth JudicialCircuit for hosting the Spring Conference in Effingham,Illinois and the 17 th Judicial Circuit for their help inhosting Fall Conferences in Rockford, Illinois.The Program Committee is diligently working on ourupcoming Spring Conference in Utica, Illinois and FallConference in East Peoria, Illinois. We have somegreat events planned to make each and every conferencea wonderful experience for everyone. Please forwardyour ideas, comments or suggestions to the committeeco-chairs. We welcome them all!!!The Program Committee will be attending the ExecutiveBoard meeting in January 2013 to report the progress onthe future conferences.Please send any and all training ideas you may have toTina Quick (tquick@vercounty.org) she is always lookingfor new ideas and trainings to our IPCSA members!The Program Committee would like invite anyone whowants to get involved to join our committee. We wouldlove to hear your ideas for various trainings help in planningfuture conferences. Feel free to contact CommitteeCo-Chairs: Tina Quick (tquick@vercounty.org) orMichelle Merz (mstites@vercounty.org). Our next meetingis tentatively scheduled after the Executive BoardMeeting in January 2013.Pre-Trial CommitteeThe IPCSA Pretrial Services Advisory Committee had the pleasure of meeting with one another at this years Fall Conference held inRockford, IL. Pretrial Practitioners from Lake, Kane, DuPage, and McLean Counties were present. The committee was also metbriefly by John McCabe, Director of Governmental Relations.The meeting began with an overview as to the current vision of the committee. The committee has been unable to meet regularly dueto increased workloads and time constraints and the question then arose as to whether we would be able to continue to meet the goalsas indicated in our previous annual plans. The committee was heavily in favor of moving forward and banding together to accomplisha major long-term goal: to establish a uniform, statewide, evidence-based risk assessment tool for all pretrial agencies. Thisassessment is known as the Virginia Pretrial Risk Assessment Tool. The committee will continue its effort in acclimating all existingpretrial agencies in acquiring this updated assessment tool consistent with the current practices of federal pretrial agencies nationwidewho also use a uniform tool.The committee was pleased to welcome John McCabe. Mr. McCabe advised of some possible upcoming legislation which may affectthe practices of Pretrial Services operations and called on the committee for our input as to what areas of need and/or legislativechange can be brought forth in the future. The committee agreed that it will conduct a thorough review of pending legislation as wellas review the Pretrial Services and Bail Statutes to seek any possible modifications and/or additions. The committee agreed that thiswill take over as a short term goal and is very pleased of Mr. McCabe’s future assistance as well as that of Michael Shaughnessy,Chairman of the Legislative Committee.A future committee meeting is pending in March or April 2013.18Respectfully Submitted,Sharjeel “Sarge” Rizvi, Chairperson