Criminal Justice Policy Board

The Public Safety Grant Administration Office Criminal Justice Policy Board meets a minimum of four times a year to review and approve planning and grant funding recommendations from various advisory committees and the Steering Committee. In this fashion, the Criminal Justice Policy Board and Steering Committee ensure the strategic planning and coordination of all the aforementioned grant programs administered by the Public Safety Grant Administration Office as well as to develop criminal justice system policies and priorities.

Membership

• George A. Zainyeh
  
  Chairperson, Citizen Member
• Honorable Peter Neronha
  
  Rhode Island Attorney General
• Collin Geiselman, Esq.
  
  Rhode Island Public Defender
• Colonel Darnell Weaver
  
  Superintendent, Rhode Island State Police
• Wayne T. Salisbury, Jr.
  
  Acting Director, Department of Corrections
• Kimberly Merolla-Brito
  
  Acting Director, Department of Human Services
• Dr. Louis Cerbo
  
  Acting Director, Department of Behavioral Health, Development Disabilities & Hospitals
• Michael Grey
  
  Chair, Board of Education
• Ashley Deckert, MSW, MA
  
  Director, Department of Children, Youth & Families
• Chief Kevin Lynch
  
  President, Rhode Island Police Chiefs' Association
• Sidney Wordell
  
  Police Chief selected by RI Police Chiefs' Association
• Utpala Bandy, MD
  
  Acting Director, Department of Health
• Ernie Almonte
  
  Executive Director, Rhode Island League of Cities & Town
• Honorable Paul A. Suttell
  
  Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
• Honorable Michael B. Forte
  
  Chief Judge, Rhode Island Family Court
• Honorable Alice B. Gibney
  
  Presiding Justice, Rhode Island Superior Court
• Honorable Jeanne E. LaFazia
  
  Chief Judge, Rhode Island District Court
• Timothy McLaughlin
  
  Rhode Island State Fire Marshal
• Caitlin O'Connor
  
  Grant and Research Specialist, Roger Williams University
• P.J. Fox
  
  Citizen Member
• Deborah DeBare
  
  Citizen Member
• Meko Lincoln
  
  Citizen Member
• Vacant
  
  Community Service Organization
• Vacant
  
  Community Service Organization
• Toby Ayers, PhD
  
  Executive Director, Rhode Island for Community and Justice