Justice Department Office of Justice Programs oversight hearing

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Written by Biloxi
September 23, 2008


House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security released yesterday the written testimonies of the witnesses. There were two panels of witnesses. The first witness will be Jeffrey Sedgwick, Acting assistant attorney general for Office Justice Program (OJP). Sedgwick replaced Ms. Cybele Daley after she left in January. A second panel of witnesses consists of six witnesses, all of them leaders of nonprofit organizations or associations:

*Bill Piper, director of national affairs at D.C.-based Drug Policy Alliance Network;
*Ron Brooks, president of the National Narcotics Officers' Associations' Coalition (NNCOAC) in San Francisco;

*Mary Lou Leary, executive director of the D.C.-based National Center for Victims of Crime, who briefly ran OJP for former President Bill Clinton;

*Shay Bilchik, director of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and former OJJDP Administrator;

*Pete Marone, president of the Virginia Department of Forensic Science; and

*Charlie Sullivan, who runs Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants.

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