Criminal Justice
Task Force Description
Currently, nearly one in every 100 American adults is behind bars and once released from prison more than four in ten return within three years. This failing system costs federal, state, and local governments approximately $85 billion, yet does not deliver adequate public safety results for taxpayers, victims, and individuals. In addition, our current criminal justice system places tremendous human costs on society. These rates of incarceration and recidivism have a tremendously negative impact on individuals, communities, and families.
In response, the American Legislative Exchange Council began its work in criminal justice and aimed to advance proven criminal justice reforms based on over two decades of data-driven research and practice.
Members of the Criminal Justice Task Force advance solutions that refocus criminal justice resources on dangerous individuals and put the right programs in place to hold those who commit nonviolent offenses accountable while providing them with the resources they need to successfully reenter society. The Criminal Justice Task Force focuses on: corrections and reentry, pretrial release, overcriminalization, sentencing reform, and transparency and accountability within the criminal justice system.
Meeting Information
Task Force on Criminal Justice Meeting Agenda
States & Nation Policy Summit | Washington, D.C.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
1:45 PM – 4:45 PM
1:45 PM Call to Order: Introductions
1:55 PM Presentation: Violent Crime Rates—Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes
2:15 PM Panel Discussion: Solving Violent Crime as the #1 Public Safety Priority
2:45 PM Proposed Model Policy Amendments To: Veterans Justice Act
3:15 PM New Model Resolution: Model Resolution on Crime Data & Clearance Rates
3:45 PM New Model Policy: Model Policy to Regulate the Use of the Colorimetric Presumptive Field Drug Test
4:15 PM Model Policy Renewals
Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act
Bail Forfeiture Notification Act
4:40 PM For the Good of the Order
4:45 PM Adjournment
All Model Policies
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Bail Forfeiture Payments Act Draft
Section 1. {Definitions} Section 2. {Forfeiture upon Failure to Appear} Upon the defendant having failed to appear at a required court appearance, the court shall declare the bail bond to be forfeited. The clerk of the court shall mail a notice of the forfeiture to both the surety and bail…
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Bail Forfeiture Notification Act Draft
Section 1: {Notification of Bail Forfeiture} (A) Upon a forfeiture of bail exceeding $400, the clerk of the court declaring such forfeiture shall, within thirty (30) days, send notice of the forfeiture via certified mail to, (1) the bond surety or depositor of money posted as bail; and…
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Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act Draft
Model Resolution: Section 1. {Short Title} The article shall be known as the Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act. Section 2. {Definitions} For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (A) “Bail fugitive” means a defendant in a pending criminal case who has been…
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Resolution on Enhancing Data on Crime and Clearance Rates Draft
Model Resolution WHEREAS, a 2024 Council on Criminal Justice Crime Trends Working Group report identified significant gaps in the nation’s crime data that make it difficult for policymakers and practitioners to develop and implement tailored and timely interventions to make communities safer; and WHEREAS, as of 2024, only 13 states…
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Model Policy to Regulate the Use of the Colorimetric Presumptive Field Drug Test Draft
MODEL POLICY TO REGULATE THE USE OF THE COLORIMETRIC PRESUMPTIVE FIELD DRUG TEST (a) For purposes of this section, the following term has the following meaning: (1) “Colorimetric field drug test” means a field-testing drug kit that consists of color test reagents for the preliminary identification of narcotics in…
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Amendments to the Veterans Justice Act Draft
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF _________: Section 1. Purpose (1) Veterans charged with certain offenses shall be given the opportunity to avoid a record of conviction, or have a felony reduced to a misdemeanor, in probation eligible offenses and avoid incarceration, and instead receive probation…