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8 <br /> <br />– Improve Furniture in Probate for Privacy 1 <br />– Install Glass Partition at Main Counter for Security 2 <br /> 3 <br />Commissioner Greene asked what data is used to create the jury master list. 4 <br />Travis Myren said he would find out for her. He resumed the PowerPoint presentation: 5 <br /> 6 <br />• Criminal Justice Resource Department – page 118 7 <br />• Total Recommended Expenditure Budget - $700,654 8 <br />• Misdemeanor Diversion Program Transition 9 <br />– Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion 10 <br />– Program Referral Instead of Arrest/Charges 11 <br />– Originally Designed to Serve 16 and 17 Year Olds in Adult System 12 <br />• Transition to Orange County Pre-Arrest Diversion (OC-PAD) 13 <br />– Redesign Program to Serve 18+ Year Olds 14 <br />– Provides Immediate and Targeted Programming and Collateral 15 <br />Consequence Education 16 <br />– Prevent Criminal History 17 <br />• Criminal Justice Resource Department – page 118 18 <br />• Restoration Program Legal Counsel - $69,978 19 <br />– 1.0 FTE Starting October 1, 2019 20 <br />– Restore Driving Privileges 21 <br />– Means Tested Service Eligibility 22 <br />– Free Legal Services to Reduce or Eliminate a Traffic Fee or Fine 23 <br />– Expunction Relief to Purge Criminal Record 24 <br />• Population Served 25 <br />– 16,000 Orange County Residents with Suspended Drivers 26 <br />Licenses 27 <br />– 3,000 of those Suspensions Result from Failure to Comply with 28 <br />Traffic Fines and Court Fees 29 <br />• Program Outcomes 30 <br />– License Restorations or Expungements 31 <br />– Employment Rates and Housing 32 <br />– Access to Health Care and Education Resources 33 <br />– Increase in Family Stability and Reduction in Recidivism 34 <br /> 35 <br />Cycle of Revocation 36 <br /> 37 <br />Criminal Justice Resource Department – page 118 (page 18 of PPT) 38 <br /> 39 <br />Criminal Justice Resource Department – page 118 40 <br /> 41 <br />Chair Rich asked if this is being done in other areas. 42 <br />Cait Fenhagen said Wake, Durham and New Hanover, but all are a little bit different. 43 <br />She said it is guided by the District Attorney’s office, and it is important to note that Orange 44 <br />County is only offering relief for failure to pay/comply, as opposed to failure to appear. 45 <br />Commissioner Bedford asked if the court fees and fines go somewhere in particular and 46 <br />how is the money made up. 47 <br />Cait Fenhagen said it is not being collected at all right now. She said it is important to 48 <br />limit this to those who really cannot ever pay, and Orange County judges have expressed 49 <br />concern about this. She said there is an affidavit of indigency, which is similar to the right to 50