Michael Laughlin holds a Master’s in Counseling/Guidance and is a former Senior U.S. Pretrial/Probation Officer/Specialist, and County Manager for Jail Diversion, Pretrial Services, and Criminal Justice systems in multiple Texas jurisdictions. He is immediate past President of Texas Association of Pretrial Services and now serves on the Professional Development Committee, and the NAPSA Diversion Committee. Additionally, Mr. Laughlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, and nationally Certified Offender Workforce Specialist, and Pretrial Release and Pretrial Diversion Professional.
He served over 35 years in clinical and criminal justice systems at city, state, county, and Federal levels, providing and managing treatment services, as well as Federal/County Courts overseeing clients and staff as senior court officer, treatment, and workforce specialist, pretrial, jail and criminal justice manager. During which he led several large, multi-disciplinary in custody and community-based treatment, jail diversion, and reentry/workforce development projects resulting in wide recognition and replication.
Mr. Laughlin has trained more than 30 years on treatment, corrections, criminal justice, pretrial, career/workforce development and performance measurement topics. He looks forward to fostering fresh ideas on improved and learning to increase the use of AI in Community Supervision to improve case and public safety outcomes for justice-involved citizens, and their families and communities.