Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA)

Trust and legitimacy: the Association has partnered with the yale justice collaboratory to put together the elevating trust and legitimacy for prosecutors project. A crucial step to achieving a just and trusted legalsystem is to ensure individuals are treated fairly and with dignity and respect as they move through the criminal justice system. More than a decade's work in policing and courts settings has shown how concerted efforts can help change the way criminal justice professionals communicate and engage with system participants and produce increased public trust and voluntary compliance and cooperation. The Association and the project partners will work with selected sites to assess how prosecutors interact with the surrounding community, implementing evidence-based practices to increase public trust. Project staff will work with prosecutors and staff across the selected offices to identify and enhance existing trust-building opportunities internally and externally. The program will also seek to test how new practices can supplement the office's gun diversion work and other interactions with the accused, witnesses, victims, and other members of the public.

Reproductive health: this project is a new initiative of apa designed to support prosecutors nationally to reduce reproductive health-related investigations and prosecutions. The project is guided by a select advisory committee made up of prosecutors from across the country to achieve five goals: 1) conduct research into the medical science of reproductive health, the disparate impact of reproductive healthcare restrictive laws, and related prosecutorial outcomes; 2) develop and publish reproductive health model policies and protocols for prosecutors focused on medical science and healthcare equity; 3) design a reproductive healthcare training and technical assistance (tta) curriculum based upon the needs of the field; 4)provide reproductive healthcare training (both in-person and virtual) to prosecutors; and 5) produce and publish materials on relevant topics in the specialty of reproductive health that will assist prosecutors.

Innovative prosecutions: this program is designed to provide prosecutorial leadership and management technical assistance in an effort to assist jurisdictions with the identification and implementation of innovative prosecutorial practices which are bringing about a more efficient and effective criminal justice system.

Capital litigation

Animal welfare

Criminal justice reform

Data dashboards

Domestic violence/human trafficking

Conviction integrity

Other programs