| Summary: | This is a transcript of a video presentation, which can be found at https://youtu.be/wYEP3wDnVVQ. [This is a transcript of a video presentation, which can be found at https://youtu.be/wYEP3wDnVVQ.] Geri Fox, Director of the Pretrial Enforcement Division of the Alaska Department of Corrections, is interviewed by Pamela Cravez, editor of the Alaska Justice Forum, about the advantages and limitiations of Alaska’s new pretrial risk assessment tool. The tool, incorporated in Alaska’s new bail statute, calculates whether a defendant is at low, moderate, or high risk for failure to appear at trial or to commit another crime if the defendant is released pretrial, and aids in the judge's decision regarding pretrial bail conditions. [Introduction] / Why is Alaska using a pretrial assessment tool? / Alaska pretrial baselines / Measuring success / What does the tool measure? / Failure to Appear (FTA) risk ractors / New Criminal Arrest (NCA) risk factors / [Static and dynamic risk factors] / Racial and gender bias / [Evaluating the tool] / [Using the tool in court] / Not a crystal ball [factors judges can consider when making release decisions] / [Educating about the tool] / Alaska Justice Forum, Winter 2018 issue / Reference & production credits
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