Program Overview
9:30 – 9:45
Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:45 – 11:00
Panel 1: History & National Landscape of Civil Commitment
•Eric S. Janus, Professor and Dean Emiritus at Mitchell Hamline School of Law
•Matt Gray, Journalist and Investigative Reporter for NJ Advance Media
•Bill Dobbs, Lawyer, Activist, and Communications Consultant
•Stephanie Jones, Survivor and Advocate
11:05 – 12:20
Panel 2: Treatment, Risk Assessment & Indefinite Detention
•Dr. Nicole Colombino, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist at The Center for Forensic & Clinical Psychology of NJ
•Hon. Bradford Bury, Retired NJ Superior Court Judge
•Corey Rayburn Yung, Research Professor at University of Kansas School of Law
12:40 – 1:40
Lunchtime Talk: Lived Experience of Civil Commitment
•Rodney Roberts, Re-Entry Coach Innocence Project
•Dr. Matthew Barry Johnson, Professor of Psychology at John Jay College
1:45 – 3:15
Panel 3: Policy Perspectives & Centering Survivors
•Tamara Rice Lave, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami
•Emma Ruth, Policy Analyst and Advocate
•Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Investigative Reporter for The Appeal
3:15 – 4:30
Panel 4: Forging a Path Forward in New Jersey and Beyond
•Terry Schuster, Ombudsman, Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson
•Ron Pierce, Deputy Ombudsman, Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson
•Alex Shalom, Partner at Lowenstein & Sandler, Chair of the Lowenstein Center for Public Interest
•Allson Perrone, Appellate Deputy Public Defender, NJ Office of the Public Defender
•Michael Mangels, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, NJ Office of the Public Defender
•Jenny Brooke-Condon, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School