Advisory Board Chairman Robert Stork Vice Chairman Allison DeFoor Dr. Nate Adams Barney Bishop Robert Blount General Bob Butterworth Joseph Clark Lori Costantino-Brown John Delaney Sandy D'Alemberte General Richard Doran Sheriff Don Eslinger Hon. Janet Ferris Richard Hersch Vicki Lopez Lukis Dale Recinella Hon. Irene Sullivan

Smart Justice Means:

• Stopping the Juvenile Pipeline into Adult Crime and Incarceration
   
• Holding Offenders Accountable
   
• Increasing Public Safety
   
• Reducing Unsustainable Costs of Prison Maintenance and Growth
   
• Strategic Investments in Appropriate, Evidence-based Interventions
   
• Reducing Costly Recidivism
   
• Ensuring Ex–offenders Return to our Communities as Productive and Employable Members of Society
   
• Saving Precious Taxpayer Resources While Reducing Crime
   

About the Florida TaxWatch Center for Smart Justice

The Florida TaxWatch Center for Smart Justice is a statewide research organization led by a distinguished board of civic and business leaders from across Florida. The Center for Smart Justice was formed in 2010 to ensure statewide justice reform that will enhance public safety through proven, cost-effective measures. Under the auspices of Florida TaxWatch, with more than three decades of improving taxpayer value, citizen understanding, and government accountability, the Center for Smart Justice is a targeted effort to address the unacceptable societal and economic outcomes of state and local public expenditures in criminal justice.

Research is increasing rapidly in the area of budgeting for justice reform simply because public expenditure on corrections is second only behind Medicaid as the largest growing budget area of state government. Spending taxpayer resources for vital public safety is a government imperative, but tough on crime and tough on spending for crime are not mutually exclusive—both concepts can be leveraged to the benefit of taxpayers through smart justice reform. It is not enough to rely on anecdotal evidence, simply too much is at risk. The Florida TaxWatch Center for Smart Justice will drive decision making in the public interest through concrete evidence found in data and research to heighten Smart Justice in Florida.