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Upcoming Events 

DOJ Tribal Consultation on Potential Legislative Proposals to Address the Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta Decision | February 5 & 6, 2025

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 3-5pm Eastern | Noon PT to 2 PM PT
Thursday, February 6, 2025, 3-5pm Eastern | Noon PT to 2 PM PT

 

Registration link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TP3TTBW 

DOJ Invitation Letter: Tribal Consultation on Possible Legislation to Address the Supreme Court's Decision in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta 

 

Please note that you will be asked to provide your name, professional affiliation, and email when you register. If you have already registered and wish to update your submission you may either use the registration link or email OTJ@usdoj.gov with your updated registration request. These sessions will be closed to the press. 

 

 We also welcome your written comments by March 6, 2025, which can be submitted either by email to OTJ@usdoj.gov or by mail to Office of Tribal Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20530-0001.

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 Responding to Violence in Tribal Communities Conference and Roundtable  

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Dates: February 24-26, 2025
Location: Peppermill Resort, Reno, Nevada

Event link: https://law.und.edu/npilc/tji/tjiconference.html 

 

The conference will provide tribal justice system officials with recent legal updates and information to support the development of violent crime responses. The conference will highlight strategies to improve violent crime responses through multi-disciplinary and collaborative approaches. The final day of the conference will include a facilitated roundtable discussion giving participants an opportunity to discuss new programs in their respective tribal communities while also providing opportunities to highlight ongoing and/or unmet needs that may be hindering tribal capacity to implement violent crime responses.

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Conference Sessions will include:

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  • Criminal jurisdiction and arrest authority updates to include an examination of VAWA special tribal criminal jurisdiction, Oklahoma v. Castro- Huerta and United States v. Cooley

  • Vicarious trauma responses for tribal justice system professionals 

  • Community-based strategies to prevent and address violence in tribal communities

  • Data driven responses to violent crimes

  • Competency issues in tribal criminal proceedings

  • Coordinated community responses to address MMIP cases

  • Building capacity to combat drug trafficking in tribal communities

  • Post-adjudication supervision of violent offenders through tribal reentry and probation programs

 

Roundtable topics will include:

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Discussions on the types of violence occurring in tribal communities, tribal codes to support violent crime responses, jurisdictional issues, and community responses to violence. As a participant you will be invited to share your professional experiences in addressing violent crimes and measures taken by your tribal community to prevent and/or address violent crimes. The overall goal of the roundtable will be to provide a forum for tribal justice system professionals to discuss issues pertaining to violence, needs of tribal justice systems, and resources or opportunities to improve violent crime responses.

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Specific topics to be discussed will include:

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  • Types of violence occurring in your tribal community

  • Strategies, programs, resources, or services that have been developed to respond to crimes of violence, including innovative or culturally based programs

  • Unmet needs of tribal justice system professionals that are or may be hindering violent crimes responses or prevention

  • Any existing or necessary collaborations that may aide in developing effective responses to violent crimes in tribal communities

 

Who should attend?

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  • Affiliates of federally recognized tribes working in tribal justice systems including tribal leaders, tribal court judges, tribal prosecutors and attorneys, probation and reentry providers, and other tribal justice system officials

  • BJA-funded grantees may use existing travel funds in their grant budget to cover the costs to attend this conference. Please contact your BJA Grant Manager if you need to reallocate grant funds to cover these

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Questions? Contact LYNNETTE MORIN, Tribal Justice Initiative Project Coordinator lynnette.morin@und.edu
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24th Intertribal Working Group (ITWG) Meeting (OVW Conference Approval is pending)

Dates: May 20-21, 2024

Location: Firekeepers Hotel (Battle Creek, MI)

 

Please save the date for the next ITWG meeting. Registration will open once OVW has approved the meeting. Please do not book any flights/plan travel. For any questions, email Chia at Chia@TLPI.org. 

Annual Events 

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The Office on Violence Against Women is a grant-making agency in the U.S. Department of Justice. Under §903 of Title IX of the United States Department of Justice Reauthorization and Violence Against Women Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005), OVW is responsible for conducting annual government-to-government consultations with the leaders of all Federally recognized Indian tribal governments on behalf of the United States Attorney General.

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The purpose of each consultation is to solicit recommendations from tribal government leaders on the following topics:​

(1) Administering tribal funds and programs;
(2) Enhancing the safety of Indian women from domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, homicide, stalking, and sex trafficking;
(3) Strengthening the federal response to such crimes; and,
(4) Improving access to local, regional, state, and federal crime information databases and criminal justice information systems.

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