Daryl Atkinson Email & Phone Number

1415 West Highway 54, Suite 101, Durham Nc 27707

123 West Main Street, Suite 400, Durham,Nc 27701

C-CAT is a web-based database that allows users to search and compile collateral consequences associated with specific North Carolina criminal offenses. Currently, collateral consequences are scattered throughout more than 168 chapters of the North Carolina General Statutes as well as in state agency regulations and federal law. The criminal statutes associated with a particular criminal offense seldom identify the collateral consequences of a conviction. As a result, those involved in a criminal proceeding, including defendants, judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys, are often unaware of the consequences flowing from a conviction in the case. C-CAT allows indigent defenders and other criminal defense attorneys to advise their clients fully and accurately about the ramifications of a criminal conviction. The tool will also assist prosecutors and judges in tailoring plea arrangements and sentences that impose appropriate sanctions while avoiding unintended detrimental consequences for people with criminal records. Morevoer, C-CAT will enable service providers, who work with people with criminal records, to develop legally viable plans for employment, housing, education, and other services necessary for successful reintegration into society.

In 2005, the North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services (IDS) created the Systems Evaluation Project to develop performance measures that would evaluate system outcomes and cost-effectiveness and enable IDS to assess, with empirical data, how well the indigent defense system meets the needs of our clients, the criminal justice system, and the community. With a data-based evaluation tool IDS will be able to improve the quality of legal representation for the poor, increase system efficiency, and quantify the social and economic benefits that quality indigent defense services generate for our clients, the criminal justice system, and the community.

The NC Second Chance Alliance is a growing statewide alliance of advocacy organizations, service providers, faith-based organizations, community leaders and interested citizens that have come together to achieve the safe and successful reintegration of adults and juveniles returning home from incarceration by promoting policies that removebarriers to productive citizenship.

Jd, Law

Ba, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Political Science Club