Creating and Enhancing Community Trust: Improving Accountability and Transparency

Citizen demands for transparency and accountability in the justice system continue to make headlines around the country. Jail leaders frequently complain that the community doesn’t know anything about their jails. Driving this disconnect, few jails have mechanisms to involve the community in their operations or provide basic information to the citizenry.

Effective partnership, including collaboration with civilian oversight, can be mutually beneficial. Panelists will discuss how jails can enhance their organization’s effectiveness through the collection, analysis and application of data, and enhance internal and external operational accountability, credibility, and transparency. Learn about how jails can welcome and work most effectively with citizen oversight to improve communication, community relations, and operational capacity. How jails can most effectively reach stakeholders, and ensure their participation, for the shared goal of improved operations?"