Purpose

Justice Watch Tucson is designed to provide a public eye on the justice system affecting citizens of Tucson, Arizona. The program aims to more actively insert public interests and values into the justice system and to maximize public order and the wellbeing of Tucsonans.

Public order is the absence of disorder. Disorder comes in many flavors, from simple neighbor squabbles and trashy yards to loud parties, graffiti, petty theft and serious crime. The justice system is an important societal mechanism to restore public order when individual restraint fails or simple person to person influence on the behavior of others is insufficient. Justice Watch Tucson wants the justice system to operate at an optimum level. It wants the forces of law and order to reduce the likelihood of future illegal and discordant behavior, and to do so efficiently and effectively.

Monday, January 13, 2014

Access to City Court Scheduling Information Obtained

Today was different.

Today was the culmination of more than fifteen months of persistent work to obtain access to City of Tucson City Court upcoming court event information.  Justice Watch Tucson has taken a step forward.

Today, Presiding Magistrate Antonio Riojas and I signed a Data Dissemination Agreement allowing the Neighborhood Support Network / Justice Watch Tucson access to daily updates of court scheduling information. Processing this data will allow lists to be prepared showing upcoming court events by type and by neighborhood so that interested parties may attend court hearings and trials relating to crime and city code violations occurring in their neighborhoods (such as noise/red tag, graffiti and property appearance violations).

Processing this information for the first time will take some work. But access has been obtained and interested citizens will be able to more easily find city court hearings and trials where they have standing and where they can attend to assert their interests. D. S. Ijams

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