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Navigating the Landscape: Responsible AI Use in Community Supervision

About This Webinar

In the evolving landscape of probation services and enhanced digital tools, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise for enhancing human decision-making processes, improving resource allocation, evaluating program efficacy, and ultimately fostering rehabilitation and community safety. However, with this promise comes a pressing need for responsible AI implementation to ensure fairness, transparency, and ethical accountability.
This presentation and discussion explore the imperative of responsible AI use within US community supervision and associated criminal justice partners. It examines the key considerations inherent in deploying AI algorithms for assessments, supervision prioritization, staff productivity tools, intervention planning, and more. By delving into the foundations of responsible AI decision-making, the presentation underscores the importance of quality data sources, staff education, mitigating biases, ensuring algorithmic transparency, and safeguarding individual rights and privacy. A key premise discussed is the importance of human decision-makers who are well informed of the capabilities and limitations of the AI-enabled tools they use.
Furthermore, the presentation highlights the potential benefits of AI-enabled innovations in probation services, such as predictive analytics for enhancing services delivery to justice involved individuals, optimizing resource allocation, and supporting staff in their interactions with their client caseload. Additionally, it explores the need for data governance, security, and privacy protection in AI-enabled probation systems. It emphasizes the importance of the use of quality data upon which to create AI-enabled systems, robust data management practices and adherence to legal and ethical guidelines to prevent misuse and ensure the integrity and reliability of AI-enabled decision-making.
By fostering a culture of responsible AI use, we as industry leaders can set the standard to harness the transformative potential of AI technologies to advance the goals of rehabilitation, public safety, and social justice.

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Hakan Klarin

CIO, Swedish Prison & Probation Services
Hakan is an experienced Chief Information Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Innovation Management, Business Development, Strategic Planning and Change Management. Holds an Executive MBA-degree and is specialized in managing global R&D and innovation within large scale organizations. Hakan has during the period 2011 to 2017 had the position as CIO for Region Ostergotland, the fourth largest county council and healthcare provider in Sweden as well as several national assignments within the domain. Since 2017, Hakan holds the position as CIO for the Swedish Prison and Probation Service and was the previous head of the Expert Group for ICT within Europris.
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Simon Bonk

Chief Research Officer, Telio
Simon is the former CIO for the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). A role he held for more than 6 years and retired from that position after almost 30 years in the Canadian Public Service. On his retirement, he joined Telio as their Chief Research Officer and Director New Business Development, where he creates and implements strategic approaches in new markets, and builds relationships with jurisdictions, researchers and other stakeholders to advance thought leadership in the correctional space. He is currently the Corporate Chair of the Corrections Technology Association and previously served as Secretary. In addition, he is the Chair of the IT Network for the International Corrections and Prison Association as well as member of the Technology Committee at the American Probation and Parole Association.
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Mike Sparling

CIO, MHS
Mike has enjoyed a career that has covered countries, platforms, companies, and minds. He has consistently created business value from research, data, analysis, and innovation. His 30 plus year career has prioritized areas of data science and artificial intelligence including industrial process control, predictive consumer behavior valuation, insurance knowledge management, machine learning in post-secondary education, and generative AI for neuroscience products. Mike spent over a decade in academia, as a professor, research leader, and Dean, and he was involved in the creation of 8 graduate and undergraduate degree programs, the launch of 2 applied-research centers, and the supervision of many artificial intelligence and big data related research projects and publications.

Mike is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer for Multi-Health Systems Ltd., where he leads strategy, business operations, technology research, and solution delivery for global markets in Public Safety, Talent Management, Healthcare, & Education. Mike’s research interest is in the field of autonomous and semi-autonomous agents (AI subsystems) in business management systems, specifically focusing on “agent goal setting based on business priorities” and “ascertaining agent behaviour through post-event analysis."
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Jason Garnett

Chief of Parole, Illinois Department of Corrections
Jason was named Chief of the Parole Division in June 2017. In his position, he oversees the supervision of parole staff and parolees in all 102 counties in Illinois. A veteran of the Department, Garnett began his career in 1994 and rose through the ranks, promoting to upper management and executive positions including Correctional Officer, Leisure Time Service I & II, and Correctional Counselor II at Centralia Correctional Center; Correctional Captain, Shift Commander, and Warden at Lawrence Correctional Center; District 5 Deputy Director of Operations; District 2-5 Deputy Chief of Parole; IDOC Acting Assistant Director; and Warden of Big Muddy Correctional Center.

As the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) Parole Division continues to strive to be a leader in parole practices, the introduction of AI initiatives could possibly be a game changer in how day to day practices are completed. Currently, the IDOC Parole Division is in the learning stages of how AI can enhance our parole operations to ensure we are working most efficiently and how it can help better serve our population with better accuracy in the performance of case management.
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