The Racial and Ethnic Disparities Subcommittee sits within the Governor's Crime Commission's Juvenile Justice Planning Committee. Its members are juvenile justice partners and educators who advise efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. Establishment of the R/ED Subcommittee supports efforts to maintain compliance with the R/ED core requirement found at 34 U.S.C. §11133(a)(15).
Topics Related to Governors Crime Commission
July 10, 2025, 10am - 12pm
Meeting of the Criminal Justice Improvement Committee, which focuses on reducing and discouraging violent crime; enhancing all aspects of criminal justice processing; and advancing justice system operations.
The committee administers federal grants including the Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Program, the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, Project Safe Neighborhood and the State Crisis Intervention Program.
July 10, 2025, 1pm - 3pm
Agenda
1:00 p.m.
Call to order, roll call approval of 4/10/2025 minutes, ethics reminder
Deana Joy, chair
1:15 p.m.
GCC Staff Updates
1:30 p.m.
DSS Update
Kathy Stone, DHHS
1:45 p.m.
CJA membership update, vote on new members
CJA Task Force/GCC Staff
2:00 p.m.
Presentation: Child Abuse Resource, prosecutor update
Donna Rainwater, Conference of District Attorneys
May 23, 2025, 10am - 12pm
Meeting of Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program and Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Program committee.
10:00 a.m. Call to Order and Roll Call
Ethics Reminder
Approval of March 18, 2024 CJI-SCIP Combined Minutes
(CJI approved at their May 8, 2025 meeting)
Chief Dan House, Chair
10:10 a.m. Federal Updates
Caroline Farmer
GCC Executive Director
Press Release in English
Hoy jueves, el gobernador Josh Stein se dirigió a la Comisión del Gobernador contra el Delito (Governor’s Crime Commission, GCC), para reseñar las prioridades en las que su administración quisiera que esta Comisión, un organismo asesor integrado por 44 miembros, se enfocara durante el próximo año.
On Thursday, Gov. Josh Stein addressed the Governor’s Crime Commission, outlining the priorities his administration would like the 44-member advisory body to focus on over the next year.
Alguacil Charles Blackwood encabezará la Comisión de 44 integrantes, el principal organismo asesor del Gobernador y Secretario de NCDPS, en materia del delito y la justicia penal.
Press Release in English
Ayer lunes, la Comisión de Compensación a Víctimas del Delitos votó por la aprobación de US$446,169 en fondos de reembolso para las víctimas de delitos violentos que han solicitado asistencia económica para cubrir costos médicos elegibles, salarios perdidos u otros gastos en los que tuvieron que incurrir por haberse cometido un delito en su contra dentro de Carolina del Norte.
September 4, 2025, 9am - 12pm
Agenda (updated Sept. 3, 2025)
9:00 a.m. Call to order, roll call, ethics reminder, approval of minutes
Sheriff Charles S. Blackwood, chair
9:10 a.m. GCC Updates
Caroline Farmer, executive director, Governor’s Crime Commission
9:20 a.m. Traffic stop update
Michelle Beck, director, Criminal Justice Analysis Center
9:30 a.m. Committee report on grant applications
Chief Dan House, chair of GCC's Criminal Justice Improvement Committee
9:40 a.m. Vote
Sheriff Blackwood, chair