The Compiler

              Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Fall 2002
PUBLICATIONS 3 RESEARCH 4 GRANTS 6 TECHNOLOGY 7
Implementing the
strategic plan for
criminal justice
Priority issues help to guide
the use of limited resources
In 1999, the Illinois Criminal Justice
Information Authority began to de-velop
a strategic criminal justice
plan for Illinois as a means of identify-ing
priorities and maximizing the use of
limited resources. The intention was to
have a plan that would help guide the
work of the 100 staff members of the
Authority and set priorities for the allo-cation
of the more than $60 million in
federal grant funds that the Authority
administers each year. This was not a
plan that was destined to sit on a shelf,
and it hasn’t.
The Authority brought together a
broad array of criminal justice and so-cial
service professionals from across
the state to develop the plan, and asked
them to identify issues confronting the
justice system and set goals and objec-tives.
Nearly 150 criminal justice
professionals and community service
leaders actively participated in a two-day
planning assembly in June 2000.
The work of that assembly was further
refined through the efforts of six advi-sory
committees and Authority staff,
and finally consolidated into the
Criminal Justice Plan for the State of
Illinois, which was unanimously
adopted by the members of the Author-ity
in June 2001.
➤ Information Systems
➤ Collaboration
➤ Services
➤ Utilization of Resources
➤ Accountability
Criminal Justice Plan for
the State of Illinois
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