Michael Laughlin holds a Master’s in Counseling/Guidance and is a former Senior U.S. Pretrial/Probation Officer-Specialist, later serving in multiple jurisdictions as a County Manager for Jail Diversion, Pretrial, and Criminal Justice systems. He is past President of Texas Association of Pretrial Services and currently serves on their Professional Development Committee, as well as Co-Chair of the APPA Technology Committee’s AI Subcommittee. Additionally, Mr. Laughlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, and nationally Certified Pretrial Release and Pretrial Diversion Professional.
He served over 30 years within clinical and criminal justice systems at municipal, State, County, and Federal levels providing and managing treatment services, and Federal/County Courts overseeing clients and staff as a Senior Officer, treatment and workforce specialist and manager. During this he led successful multi-disciplinary, cross-system team projects around in-custody and community-based treatment, jail diversion, and reentry/workforce programs leading to local and national replication.
Mr. Laughlin has also trained many groups around treatment, corrections, criminal justice, pretrial, workforce development, data metrics, and field technology topics. He looks forward to fostering fresh ideas here around leveraging data analytics to strengthen public safety, operations, and outcomes for staff, agencies, clients, and stakeholders.