Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research (APPR) is pleased to offer a virtual Office Hour on the new edition of the PSA Scoring Manual. The unstructured, drop-in session—available at no cost—will be held on May 3, 2022 from 1 to 2 p.m. ET. APPR staff will answer specific questions about scoring the PSA. Advance registration is required.
About the Office Hour
The new edition of the PSA Scoring Manual, issued in March 2022, replaces the previous edition from April 2020. The 2022 edition is best suited for jurisdictions that:
- Are preparing to implement the PSA in the future
- Have already implemented the PSA but have not yet locally validated it and are able to collect data under the clarified scoring rules
Jurisdictions that have already locally validated the PSA may continue to use the scoring rules from the April 2020 edition of the PSA Scoring Manual, or they can collect and analyze data under any differing scoring rules to determine which way is most valid for them.
APPR is committed to continually clarifying the PSA scoring rules as we receive feedback from the field and to synchronizing them as closely as possible with the way the researchers originally developed the PSA.
Read about the clarifications in the new edition.
Faculty
The faculty for this session are professionals who have many years of experience with pretrial justice and the PSA.
Jessica Ireland, senior manager, Center for Effective Public Policy
Jessica has decades of experience as a pretrial services practitioner and previously served as the program manager for Mecklenburg County Pretrial Services. In that role, she successfully worked with justice system stakeholders to implement the PSA.
Michael R Jones, consultant
Mike has 12 years of specialized experience in pretrial system change, training, and technical assistance. He has worked with hundreds of localities to implement legal and research-supported pretrial practices, including the PSA.