Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research (APPR) is offering a webinar, DuPage County (IL) Pretrial DV/IPV Assessment Findings and Recommendations. The webinar is on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, from 1 to 2 p.m. ET.
About the Training
In August 2026, the Center for Effective Public Policy (CEPP) completed an assessment of how DuPage County implements the domestic violence and intimate partner violence provisions of Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act. The process drew on APPR’s DV/IPV Pretrial Self-Assessment along with court data, stakeholder interviews, and court observations.
In this session, CEPP staff sit down with a DuPage County Circuit Court judge to discuss what the process was like, including how they plan to triage the recommendations and assign them to existing workgroups. The conversation closes with one of the hardest questions the assessment prompted: In practice, how do judicial leaders balance survivor safety and defendants’ rights?
Learning Objectives
- Learn about DuPage County leadership’s experience participating in a DV/IPV pretrial self-assessment, including what the process revealed about their system
- Identify practical lessons that DuPage County stakeholders drew from the assessment, including how they prioritized recommendations and matched them with existing workgroups
- Explain how judicial leaders strive to balance survivor safety and defendants’ rights under the Pretrial Fairness Act and how they drew from DuPage County stakeholders’ discussion of their own cases and practices
Training Faculty
Dr. Kelvin L. Banks, associate director, Center for Effective Public Policy
Dr. Banks has over 25 years of experience in the justice system, with more than 10 years in pretrial justice. He was previously the director of pretrial services in Harris County, Texas, and for the Third Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan.
Keilah Joyner, program associate, Center for Effective Public Policy
Ms. Joyner supports the National Resource Center on Justice-Involved Women, including the Gender-Informed Practices Assessment and an initiative focusing on the assessment of gender-responsive policies and practices. She also provides programmatic and training support to APPR. Before joining CEPP, Ms. Joyner worked for the Florida Commission on Offender Review and various nonprofit agencies.
Honorable Ann Celine O. Walsh, circuit judge, 18th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois, Felony Division
Judge Walsh was appointed as an associate judge in 2014 and as a circuit judge in 2019; She currently hears felony criminal cases. Prior to her judicial role, she was a supervisor in the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office, specializing in sex crimes and domestic violence.
Registration Process
If you are interested in attending the webinar on October 28, please complete the webinar registration.
Please direct any questions to Samuel Steed, operations assistant at the Center for Effective Public Policy, at ssteed@cepp.com.
