Contact: Thomas MacLellan

EXPERTISE

Duties: Thomas oversees the NGA Center's work on justice and public safety policy issues. In this role he currently directs the NGA Prisoner Reentry Policy Academy, the National Cyber and Electronic Crime Strategic Policy Project, the Improving Forensic DNA Policy Project, and the Public Safety Performance Project. He is also the co-lead on the NGA State Leadership in Criminal Justice Information Technology Integration Project, a project designed to help improve how states share criminal justice information within their criminal justice systems. Thomas also provides targeted technical assistance to governors' criminal justice policy advisors on a range of criminal justice policy issues, including forensic DNA, sex offenders, methamphetamine production, prisoner reentry, and sentencing reform.

BACKGROUND

Previous Positions: Project Assistant/Juvenile Specialist , Johnson, Bassin, & Shaw; Service Coordinator, The Choice Program; Assistant Director, Christopher Place; Residential Counselor, The Ocean Tides School

Education: B.A. Psychology and English, College of the Holy Cross

Professional Memberships: Member, National Advisory Committee for Preventing Relationship Violence Among Youth Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2007-Present); Member, US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs' federal advisory committee for using forensic DNA in identifying missing individuals and unidentified dead (2004); Member, US Department of Justice's Global Justice Privacy and Information Quality Working Group (2004—present); Member, GED National Advisory Committee (2000-2007); Member, The Urban Institute Technical Review Group Prisons to Home Project (2001-2006); Member, Johns Hopkins' Sar Levitan Institute Youth Policy Network (1999-2006); Member, National Crime Prevention Council's National Advisory Committee Embedding Initiative (2001-2004); Member, Annie E. Casey Foundation's National Advisory Committee Making Connections Project (2001-2002); Member, Youth Development Research Fund (2001-2002); Member, Howard County Police Citizens Advisory Council (1999-Present); National Board Member, American Farm Center Foundation

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

MacLellan, Thomas, et al., "Managing Convicted Sex Offenders in the Community" (NGA Center for Best Practices: November, 2007).

MacLellan, Thomas, "Improving Public Safety by Expanding the Use of Forensic DNA" (NGA
Center for Best Practices: February, 2007).

MacLellan, Thomas, "Protecting Privacy in Integrated Justice Systems" (NGA Center for Best
Practices: April, 2006).

MacLellan, Thomas, "Improving Prisoner Reentry Through Strategic Policy Innovations"
(NGA Center for Best Practices: September, 2005).

MacLellan, Thomas, "Incorporating Local Justice Information in State Systems" (NGA Center
for Best Practices: March, 2004).

MacLellan, Thomas, "Early Lessons from States to Promote Youth Development" (NGA Center
for Best Practices: May, 2004).

MacLellan, Thomas, et al., "High Academic Standards in Alternative Education: Setting the
Standards of Excellence for Non-Traditional High School Students" (NGA Center for Best
Practices: Spring, 2001).

MacLellan, Thomas, et al., "Improving Public Safety through Justice Information Sharing" (NGA
Center for Best Practices: Spring 2002).

MacLellan, Thomas, "Improving Outcomes for At-Risk Youth Using Youth Development
Strategies" (NGA Center for Best Practices: July, 2000).

MacLellan, Thomas, et al., "Building Bridges Across Systems: State Innovations to Address and
Prevent Family Violence" (NGA Center for Best Practices: April, 2000).

MacLellan Thomas, Dealing With Violent Juvenile Offenders (NGA Center for Best Practices: February, 2000).

MacLellan, Thomas, Making Schools Safe (NGA Center for Best Practices: August, 1999).

MacLellan, Thomas, An Analysis of Mentors' Journal For School Year 1997-98 (Prepared for the
Baltimore County Public School System: September, 1998).*

MacLellan, Thomas, et al., Arizona Department of Health Services: Technical Review Report
(Prepared for Center for Substance Abuse Treatment: June, 1998).*

MacLellan, Thomas, et al., Information and Statistics About Juvenile Justice and Substance
Abuse (Prepared for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: December, 1997).*

MacLellan, Thomas, Juvenile Justice and Substance Abuse: An Assessment of New Hampshire's
Treatment Systems (Prepared for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment: November, 1998).*

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the National Governors Association or individual governor's offices.