{"id":6908,"date":"2014-05-17T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T12:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2014-07-17T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:18:43","slug":"study-visit-to-us-community-courts-in-minneapolis-and-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/blog\/2014\/05\/17\/study-visit-to-us-community-courts-in-minneapolis-and-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Study visit to US community courts in Minneapolis and New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between April 23 and May 4 representatives of the Foundation took part in a study visit to several community courts in the USA. The visit was funded by the Polish National Council for Research and Development, as part of the project called &#8222;Pilot implementation of the community court model in Poland&#8221; (IS-1\/039\/NCBR\/2014). The project is aimed at investigating the possibility of translating some features of the community court model into the Polish legal and social context. During the visit, participants had a chance to observe two problem-solving courts in Minneapolis (Hennepin County Court): the DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) Court and the Co-Parent Court. In New York City, we were able to visit Midtown Community Court as well as the Red Hook Community Justice Center. Both projects were initiated and are co-operated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtinnovation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Court Innovation<\/a>, a think-tank that made the visit both possible and fruitful. We also met the team working on a new project, Brownsville Community Justice Center, which was especially interesting, as provided insight into the practical challenges of planning and implementation at an earlier stage.<br \/>\nWhile full implementation of the US community court model would certainly prove difficult under the Polish legal system, closer collaboration between various agencies (including the one-shop idea), use of assessment tools, more individualized and meaningful sanctioning, and focus on community needs and preferences are certainly worth implementing &#8211; in Poland as elsewhere.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_6751\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/sad-dla-spolecznosci-community-court-w-praktyce-relacja-z-wizyty-studyjnej-w-usa\/dsc_0239-www\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6751\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6751\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6751 \" title=\"Od lewej Kamila Popiela i dr Stanis\u0142aw Burdziej (cz\u0142onkowie zarz\u0105du Fundacji), s\u0119dzia Alex Calabrese (Red Hook Community Justice Center), Bartosz Pilitowski (prezes Fundacji), dr Rados\u0142aw Sojak (UMK) i s\u0119dzia dr Piotr Gensikowski (SR w Grudzi\u0105dzu)\" src=\"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_0239-www.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_0239-www.jpg 800w, https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_0239-www-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting in Red Hook Community Justice Center, left-2-right Kamila Popiela &#038; Stanis\u0142aw Burdziej Ph.D. (Court Watch Poland Foundation), judge Alex Calabrese, Bartosz Pilitowski (President of Board of the Foundation), Rados\u0142aw Sojak  Ph.D. (University of Nicolaus Copernicus) and judge Piotr Gensikowski Ph.D.<\/p><\/div> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between April 23 and May 4 representatives of the Foundation took part in a study visit to several community courts in the USA. The visit was funded by the Polish National Council for Research and Development, as part of the project called &#8222;Pilot implementation of the community court model in Poland&#8221; (IS-1\/039\/NCBR\/2014). The project is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/6751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courtwatch.pl\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}