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This report examines the progress made by the DC criminal justice system to implement the 27 recommendations of the Council for Court Excellence’s 2001 study, entitled A Roadmap to a Better DC Criminal Justice System. Two Years Down the Road found that progress had been made to re-engineer misdemeanor case processing, but that felony cases were being processed much the same way as reported in 2001.

This report has two purposes: a) to increase public accountability of the District of Columbia's child abuse and neglect system, and b) to increase the community's understanding of that system. This is the CCE's first public report on the progress made by the leaders of the DC child welfare system to bring the District of Columbia into compliance with the federal and local Adoption and Safe Families Acts ("ASFA"). Please call 202.785.5917 to order over the phone.

The court community observers project used trained community volunteers to observe individual DC Superior Court criminal court hearings and related court functions during the spring of 2002. Volunteers recorded their observations and the Council for Court Excellence published the major findings in this report to the courts and to the community. Please call 202.785.5917 to order over the phone.

Practical recommendations by CCE to improve the civil case trial process in the DC Superior Court, with an emphasis on the court's alternative dispute resolution program. The report examined the implementaion progress of a prior CCE civil case processing study and found that the CCE recommendations adopted by the Superior Court in the early 1990s were working well and had significantly reduced the time to disposition of most civil cases.

The court community observers project used trained community volunteers to observe individual DC Superior Court civil court hearings and related court functions during the spring of 2001. Volunteers recorded their observations and the Council for Court Excellence published the major findings in this report to the courts and to the community. Please call 202.785.5917 to order over the phone.

Final report of the Council for Court Excellence District of Columbia Grand Jury Study Committee. Report contains 23 law reform and grand juror quality of life recommendations to improve the grand jury systems in Washington, DC. Please call 202.785.5917 to order over the phone.

An Executive Summary of The Grand Jury of Tomorrow, New Life for An Archaic Institution publication. Please call 202.785.5917 to order over the phone.

Report summary and recommendations of practical strategies to increase DC public safety and save taxpayer dollars. Please call 202.785.5917 to order over the phone.

An update to the community of the Juries for the Year 2000 and Beyond publication. Please call 202.785.5917 to order over the phone.

The combined efforts of Samuel F. Harahan, Executive Director of the Council for Court Excellence, and Waleed Haider Malik, Senior Public Sector Management Specialist and Task Manager in the Public Sector Group of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the Latin America and Carribean Region of the World Bank, produced this booklet geared towards analyzing the policy considerations relating to establishing and promoting more effective civil society participation in the administration of justice. Please call 202.785.5917 to order over the phone.