Arizona

Technical Assistance:

Maricopa County Adult Probation Department (January 2006): CSOM provided support to enable one participant to attend the CSOM training at the 2006 Winter APPA Training Institute.

Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections, Phoenix, Arizona (January 2004): CSOM staff met with the interim director of the department to provide an overview of the findings from CSOM's review of juvenile sex offender management practices within ADJC and to discuss potential opportunities for further assistance. Staff also met with the multidisciplinary ADJC team that is working on the recommendations to offer more detailed information and assistance relative to some of the specific recommendations.

The Roman Catholic Church, Diocese of Tucson, Tucson, Arizona (January 2004): CSOM staff and one consultant met with representatives from the Archdiocese of Tucson to understand clearly their need for assistance around the management of priests, deacons, and religious brothers who have sexually offended but are not under the supervision of the criminal justice system.

Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections (August 2003): Provided support to enable a six-person multidisciplinary team to attend the CSOM training at the 2003 Summer APPA Training Institute.

Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections, Phoenix/Tucson, Arizona (July 2003): Provided project staff and consultants to conduct a statewide assessment of the agency's work with juvenile sex offenders, both those detained and under community supervision.

Yuma County Sex Offender Task Force, Yuma County, Arizona (May 2003): Provided a staff member and three consultants to process a training event and assist with strategic planning.

Gila County, Arizona (August 2002): CSOM provided support to enable one adult probation officer to attend the CSOM training at the 2002 Summer APPA Training Institute.

Gila County, Arizona (February 2002): CSOM provided support to enable a five-person multidisciplinary team to attend the CSOM training at the 2002 Winter APPA Training Institute.

Hanratty Investigations and Polygraph Services (serving Cochise, Yuma, and Pima) (July 2000): CSOM provided support to enable one polygraph examiner to attend the CSOM training at the 2000 Summer APPA Training Institute.

Training:

Provided a one-day training on the management of adult and juvenile sex offenders for a multidisciplinary audience in Yuma County, Arizona, May 2003 (90 participants).

CSOM supported meeting costs for a management team meeting with tribal leaders to develop and secure support for tribal policies on the management of sex offenders at the request of the Tribal/Federal Effective Sex Offender Management Team in Pima County, Arizona, September 2000 (30 participants).

Pilot-tested substantive material to be included in CSOM’s Comprehensive Training Curricula at a statewide training for 30 county-based, multidisciplinary policy teams, including probation and parole representatives, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, treatment providers, polygraph examiners, and victim advocates in Phoenix, Arizona, November 1998 (350 participants).

Resource Sites:

Maricopa County pioneered lifetime probation supervision, and was one of the first jurisdictions to use specialized caseloads, including intensive supervision, for sex offenders. There is extensive collaboration among probation, the court, the prosecutor's office, treatment providers, and law enforcement. The probation department secured assistance from the National Institute of Justice to evaluate the effectiveness of their approach.

The Navajo Nation in Tuba City developed a committee comprised of representatives from the Tribal Court, Tribal Probation, the Tribal Council, the Tribal Prosecutor's office, law enforcement, mental health providers, local schools, child advocates, community members, and others to critically examine what resources are available to treat and supervise sex offenders and to provide restoration to victims of sexual assault. These entities work together on an ongoing basis in order to ensure that they are capitalizing on their resources in the most effective way possible in order to prevent future victimization.

OJP Grant Sites:

2004: Maricopa County Adult Probation supervises over 1,300 sexual offenders, with an average of 70 offenders in custody as a condition of their probation at any given time. In the last year, approximately 134 offenders have served a period of incarceration of 30 days or more, with the majority serving a period of six months or longer. Maricopa County Adult Probation will use grant funds to implement a sex offender management strategy through a two phased process that addresses the needs and gaps in the current system. In Phase I, the grantee will finalize development of its multidisciplinary team and engage in a comprehensive assessment of current sex offender management practices. The team members will determine the processes and structure that they will use to collect the necessary information, analyze it, and develop strategies to address local issues. Maricopa County's focus will be placed on the reentry of sex offenders on probation who serve time in jail and then return to the community. One of the perceived gaps in the system is the lack of sex offender treatment in the jail. An implementation plan will be developed based on the jurisdiction's analysis of its most pressing needs. In Phase II, Maricopa will implement those strategies developed by the local jurisdiction's team and approved by BJA.

2001: The Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona is a federally recognized Indian tribe. The tribe's reservation, New Pascua Pueblo, is located in Southern Arizona. Approximately 5,000 tribal members live on the reservation. The tribal leadership of the reservation is committed to ending sexual violence and has worked with a sex offender management committee that has developed an action plan aimed at doing so. The goals of this grant were to educate relevant disciplines and tribal leaders about sex offender assessment, supervision, and treatment; to provide accurate information about sexual violence to the Pascua Yaqui community; to develop and advocate for the implementation of a tribal policy for registration and community notification; to develop culturally sensitive practices for assessing and treating offenders; and to develop a strategy to provide specialized treatment services for offenders and victims.

2001: The Tohono O'odham Nation is a federally recognized Indian tribe governing a 2.8 million acre reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern Arizona. Approximately half of the Nation's 25,000 enrolled members live in the reservation's 85 villages, which range in size from 10 to 4,000 residents. The Nation experienced a significant increase in the number of reported sexual assaults on the reservation in the years leading up to this grant. They used planning grant funds to: better understand the extent of sexual victimization on the Nation; conduct a needs assessment to better understand the resources that are needed for victims and offenders; develop a plan for the implementation of a tribally-managed treatment program for sex offenders; and increase collaboration between agencies working with offenders and victims to encourage a more systematic approach to managing sex offenders.