CJCC’s 2026 Priority Areas and Related Efforts

1. Violent Crime

2. Juvenile Justice

3. Subtance Abuse and Mental Health

4. Incarceration and Community Corrections

5. Automated Information Sharing

Violent Crime

• High-Risk Individuals: Develop a method for routinely updating the GunStat list.
• Domestic Violence: Identify and address challenges to investigating and prosecuting DV cases and protecting DV victims.

Juvenile Justice

• Continuum of Care: Develop a continuum of care implementation plan for at-risk and system involved youth.
• Crossover Youth: Develop a protocol for identifying and supporting crossover youth.
• Youth Violence: Develop a mechanism to identify youth at high risk of engaging in violence. Identify services/programs that are most effective for these youth.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

• Prearrest Diversion: Recommend criteria and design for a prearrest diversion program.
• Sequential Intercept Model: Address gaps identified in Sequential Intercept Model (SIM).
• Drug Court: Monitor participation and outcomes.
• Mental Health Community Court: Monitor participation and outcomes.

Incarceration and Community Corrections

• First Step Act: Monitor application of the law to DC Code population.
• Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act: Identify eligible individuals and monitor recidivism.
• Reentry for Early Releases: Support successful reentry of individuals released under IRAA, First Step Act, and Compassionate Release.

Automated Information Sharing

• COOP: Test and refine emergency response plans for disaster scenarios: 1) DCSC closure, 2) JUSTIS Exchange outage, and 3) JUSTIS information Portal outage.
• Sealings and Expungements: Develop a mechanism to identify eligible papered and no-papered records for automatic sealing and expungement.

CJCC works to improve the quality and availability of timely information and data by operating and maintaining the District’s integrated justice information system—JUSTIS, an electronic system through which local and federal criminal justice agencies in the District voluntarily share information with one another. JUSTIS is the Integrated Justice Information System (IJIS) for the District of Columbia. It was created with the intention of improving information-sharing among agencies, and throughout its lifespan has continued to be a success. JUSTIS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and enables authorized agencies to contribute criminal justice information through an automated data feed. The information is made available to authorized viewing agencies through an information portal, as well as through a system-to-system exchange.

Four CJCC bodies govern decisions with respect to the operations and functionality of JUSTIS.

• ITAC

The Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC) is responsible for setting the technology direction of JUSTIS, making policy decisions, establishing long-range goals, and promoting the participation of appropriate agencies in emerging JUSTIS projects.

• ISW

The Inter-Agency Workgroup (IWG) oversees the implementation of information-sharing initiatives approved by ITAC. It is also the forum for resolving issues related to existing information exchanges.

• IWG

The Information Security Workgroup (ISW) is responsible for identifying industry-wide best practices and policies regarding information security and information exchange among JUSTIS agencies, and having reviewed them, making recommendations to ITAC.

• IDQ

The Inter-Agency Data Quality Workgroup (IDQ) aims to identify systemic issues associated with information quality within the criminal justice system and to recommend solutions for addressing them.