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Governance Structure Responsibilities

• Articulating a united vision and determining the scope and focus of projects
• Define and sanction project objectives and timetables
• Appropriately assess risk and set quality expectations
• Garner support from other stakeholders and decision-makers
• Monitor planning, implementation, and management
• Define integrated justice operational requirements
• Oversee systems acquisition
• Resolve implementation obstacles
• Review system performance
• Focus on enhancements, improvements, and next phases
• Provide leadership, review business processes and policies, analyze technical environments and solutions

Why Governance Structures are Critical to Integrated Justice Success

• Justice integration projects are difficult and need strong leadership to guide the process
• Integration is strategic and involves multiple organizations, multiple budget cycles, and multiple funding streams
• Integration involves independent agencies, elected officials, and separate branches of government. The agencies include both justice and non- justice agencies that operate separate systems for collecting and maintaining data critical to carrying out diverse missions
• Integration involves significant investments of time and resources and must include stakeholder input
• There are major implications with justice integration: policy, operational, organizational, legal, cultural, personal, managerial, and technical
• A governance structure ensures a place at the table for all relevant organizations and users and ensures equality in decision-making
• A governance structure provides a recognized vehicle to strategically plan for integrated justice system