Policy Proposal from A Senior Policy Analyst Perspective  Create an outline of 400-600 words for the below assignment, include potential sources you’ll use

You will produce a policy proposal from the perspective that you are a senior policy analyst employed by a state’s Administrative Office of the Courts. In this role as a senior policy analyst, you have been assigned to draft a proposal for the court administrator recommending viable options based on the legislature’s interests and objectives. The background information that you have been given by your employer is that the Judicial Committee of the State Legislature is very interested in a policy proposal that weighs options for new programs and/or approaches to dispute resolution designed to satisfy the legislature’s stated objectives to do the following:

Policy Proposal from A Senior Policy Analyst Perspective Reduce case backlog

Shorten the average time for court hearings to be calendared and for decisions to be rendered

Avoid the expense of expanding the number of courthouses, judges, and associated court staff and/or detention facilities and associated staff

Minimize the need for funding of new programs

Consider the viability of “community burden-sharing” through partnerships with private (where private includes both profit and nonprofit) organizations and resources

Questions the policy proposal will answer:

Would it cost the state less to implement victim-offender mediation (VOM) program for juvenile offenders than it would expand the courts and corrections staff and facility infrastructure?

Would it take the stateless time to implement a program such as this then it would expand the courts and corrections staff and facility infrastructure?

Policy Proposal from A Senior Policy Analyst Perspective

To what extent could a VOM program reduce court case backlog and thereby shorten the average time between arrest and case disposition?

What is the “track record” of one or more comparable VOM program(s)?

What are the social benefits and social costs of a VOM program for juvenile offenders both to the offenders themselves and to the larger community?

Are there particular types of cases that are appropriate, as opposed to others that the legislature might want to exclude?

What are the major challenges that will be faced by the Administrative Office of the Courts in implementing this proposed policy in terms of the following?

Policy Proposal from A Senior Policy Analyst Perspective Program development

Training and credentialing of mediators

“Selling” it to potentially supportive community resources that could become partners with the state in this effort

Case flow and records management

Security issues related to cases being mediated outside of court facilities