WATCH Posts

Our quarterly newsletter, the WATCH Post, includes information about WATCH programs, recent observations from daily court monitoring, and reports of special monitoring projects.

Current Issue
Spring 2008(PDF205KB)
National Walk-In for Justice; Dominic Jones Trial:Calling it what it is; a crime not sex; Order for protection plagued by myths; Thumbs up/thumbs down; case summaries.

2008
Winter 2008(PDF756KB)
Justice system personel evaluate WATCH; 2007 Volunteers and donors; case summaries; stalking awareness; courtroom delays.

2007

Fall 2007(PDF371KB)
Defendant Chronology; Cameras in courtrooms; Gun removal pilot project; Adapting WATCH model in Michigan.

Summer 2007(PDF 212KB)
Do tight budgets mean loose justice?; National recognition; Case Summaries; Thumbs up/thumbs down.

Spring 2007(PDF 352KB)
Offender Chronology; Communication is key when the public is waiting; Thumbs up / thumbs down.

Winter 2007 (PDF 548KB)
The impact of Minnesota's felony strangulation law; 2006: A year of firsts; 2006 year in review; 2006 volunteers and donors; In memory of Lois Bishop.

Index
Fall 2006 (PDF 368KB)
Culture of violence spawns killings; Enhance murder convictions; Legacy of violence: chronology of an offender.

Summer 2006 (PDF 260KB)
Victim impact statements; Girls leading the way to a better world; 2006 Hennepin County domestic violence court violence report; Case summaries.

Spring 2006 (PDF 212KB)
Sexual assault and the courts; Sexual assault and native women; Sexual assault policy; Response from the bench to Winter 2006 newsletter articles.

Winter 2006 (PDF 357KB)
Family court; National technical assistance and training; Digital storytelling for survivors; 2005 in review; 2005 donors and volunteers.

Fall 2005 (PDF 330KB)
Administrative probation; Monitoring for racial justice; Issues in sexual assault trials.

Summer 2005 (PDF 153KB)
Chronology of a repeat domestic violence defendant; Strangulation in domestic violence; Case summaries; Role of WATCH monitors.

Spring 2005 (PDF 150KB)
Felony domestic assault strangulation legislation; Chronology of a defendant with 20-year criminal history against 13 women and children; Involving community groups in court monitoring through Eye on Justice Initiative.

Winter 2005 (PDF 166KB)
Heeding early warnings of domestic homicide; WATCH travels to Bulgaria and expands national outreach; Court monitoring in rural Minnesota.

Fall 2004
Order for protection project summary; Judicial elections; Domestic Violence: A Matter of Life and Death.

Summer 2004 (PDF 163KB)
Homicides of women and children in Minnesota; Defending public access to the courts; Case summaries; A 2002 domestic homicide case from Hennepin County.

Winter 2004 (PDF 202KB)
Chronology of a pimp; 2003 donors and volunteers; A letter from Hennepin County Chief Judge Kevin Burke.

Spring 2003 (PDF 232KB)
Orders for protection; The red wave of WATCH; 2002 donors and volunteers.

Winter 2003 (PDF 448KB)
Remembering Sheila Wellstone; Update on the Hennepin County domestic violence court; Outcomes of misdemeanor domestic violence cases in Minneapolis.