The Reducing Revocations Challenge was announced as a national initiative dedicated to transforming probation supervision and reducing unnecessary failures that contribute to mass incarceration. The Challenge will address these issues by supporting action research in up to 10 jurisdictions around the country to better understand why revocations occur and how they can be prevented, with the goal of informing specific policy and practice interventions that can be piloted and tested in a potential second phase of the initiative.

Along with Brooklyn's District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, we announced a Data and Transparency Initiative that will improve the Office of the DA’s ability to track and analyze its data, allowing for better evaluation of prosecutors’ decision-making, enhanced transparency, and an increased ability to assess the effectiveness of its policies. The partnership represents an important step in fulfilling the recommendation of DA Gonzalez’s Justice 2020 Committee to “establish a data/analytics team to drive metrics, best practices, and reform.”

Arnold Ventures announced the launch of a new grant-funded community dedicated to reducing unjust and unnecessary pretrial detention. As an Arnold Ventures grantee, we joined the National Partnership for Pretrial Justice (www.pretrialpartnership.org), a group of more than two dozen research, technical assistance, policy, and advocacy organizations that will work to advance pretrial justice nationally and in more than 35 states across the country.

Seventeen recently elected members of the New York City Council and State Legislature were selected as 2019 recipients of the Lindsay Fellowship in Government Leadership and Practice. Named for former Mayor John Lindsay and launched in 2017, the fellowship engages promising New York City leaders who have been elected to the city and state legislative bodies in the past four years. The program introduces these leaders to experts across a variety of policy areas and provides a space for ongoing dialogue and learning.