Criminal Justice Planner

Schedule 2025

The Community Criminal Justice Board (CCJB) meetings are typically held on the 2nd Wednesday in January, April, July, and October, unless otherwise noted below. Minutes (protocols) from previous meetings are available for review.

Next meeting:

January 14, 2026
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm: Location: OAR Conference Room (1218 Harris St. Charlottesville)

Contact CJ Planner Matt Vitale at mvitale@oar-jacc.org for more information

Agenda:

The Community Criminal Justice Board

The CCJB’s mission is to enable participating localities to work together to develop community-based pretrial court services and post-conviction alternatives to incarceration for misdemeanants and certain nonviolent felons.

The participating localities include Albemarle, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Louisa, Madison, Nelson, and Orange County. The Board meetings happen quarterly to discuss trends in crime and incarceration, and to consider proven alternatives to incarceration that enhance long-term public safety goals.

List of the Board Members

The Board by-laws

Strategic Plan

Evidence Based Decision Making Team (EBDM)

Charlottesville and Albemarle County, beginning in 2010, were selected by the National Institute of Corrections as one of seven national pilot sites for implementing an evidence-based decision-making framework to coordinate the work of all criminal justice agencies.

Membership on the EBDM Team includes city and county leaders in law enforcement, prosecution, public defense, pretrial and probation supervision, victim/witness services, the courts, the jail, the chief magistrate, and behavioral health providers.

The Planner convenes the EBDM Team on a bi-monthly basis, provides the Team with an analysis of local criminal justice data, and coordinates the work of a number of project teams.

Latest Reports

Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail Annual Report

A comprehensive analysis of ten-year jail trends, including bookings, recidivism, charge origination, average daily population, and other key criminal justice indicators.

Author: Matthew S. Vitale

Date: June 2025

Drug Cases Submitted to the Virginia Department of Forensic Science (DFS)

The frequency with which specific drugs are identified through DFS testing provides insight into the relative availability of those substances within the community—and how that availability has shifted over time.

Author: Matthew S. Vitale

Date: December 2024

Central Virginia Regional Jail Annual Report

Over the past ten years, this report tracks key jail trends—bookings, recidivism, charge sources, and average daily population—to inform decisions across the criminal justice system.

Author: Matthew S. Vitale

Date: June 2025

Capstone and the Board report.pptx

Report

High Utilizers of the Albemarle and Charlottesville Criminal Justice System

Authors: Zakaria Afi, Sudarshan Atmavilas, Sarah Bedal, Olivia Bernard, Mohini Gupta, and Caroline Lee, Loreto Alonzi, Michael Smith, K. Preston White, Jr. Senior Member, Matthew S. Vitale

Date: April 2025

2015-2024 Annual Jail Utilization Reports by County: Local Data

Time series data of booking and release trends specific to counties within the Jefferson Area CCJB.

Author: Matthew S. Vitale

Date: December 2025

Comparative Overview: ACRJ and National Jail Statistics

This narrative report examines how local trends at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail compare to national patterns in incarceration, including demographics, offense characteristics, and length of stay.

Author: Matthew S. Vitale

Date: May 2025

Additional Reports

The Board regularly publishes new criminal justice reports, with more than 35 currently available. These reports are intended to support professionals in learning best practices and making data-informed decisions.

Health care utilization by previously incarcerated individuals.pptx

Author: Eugenie Hughes, MD,

Date: June 2022

Video resources

Updated 8/20/2025