| Account | Description | FY2012 Spending |
FY2013 GAA |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1599-1300 | CPCS Process Evaluation For a committee on public counsel services process evaluation reserve; provided, that the inspector general shall select an independent evaluator to assess changes made to the administration of indigent defense services over fiscal year 2012 and fiscal year 2013; provided further, that the evaluation shall report on the effectiveness of the committee in making changes to the number of public defenders given the goals of increasing cost efficiency and cost certainty and maintaining quality of representation; provided further, that the evaluator shall be selected through a competitive procurement in which the inspector general shall consider social science researchers with experience in: (i) conducting process evaluations across a wide array of criminal justice systems; (ii) cost benefit analysis; (iii) developing logic models; (iv) extracting and analyzing criminal justice data, including judicial systems and indigent defense; and (v) quantitative and qualitative evaluations; provided further, that the inspector general shall select the evaluator not later than October 1, 2012; provided further, that preference shall be given to not for profit research organizations; provided further, that the evaluator shall provide quarterly progress updates to the house and senate committees on ways and means beginning on November 1, 2012; provided further, that the evaluator shall provide a preliminary report on their findings to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than March 15, 2013; and provided further, that this item shall not revert and shall be made available for these purposes through June 30, 2014 |
0 | 150,000 |