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Title: Report of Regional Meetings of the Tribal-State Judicial Consortium in 2008
Parties: New Mexico tribal courts, New Mexico courts
Date enacted/published: October 2008

Description:

This is an extensive report to American University on three regional meetings of judges and court staff held to identify common concerns and begin crafting solutions. The approach was designed to improve the resolution of cross-jurisdictional issues. The process, participants, issues and potential solutions raised in each meeting is described in the report.

For additional information contact:
Kathy Spurgin
Statewide Program Manager
Administrative Office of the Courts
e-mail: aockbs@nmcourts.gov
phone: (505) 827-4808
Title: Report of Regional Meetings of the Tribal-State Judicial Consortium in 2009
Parties: New Mexico tribal courts, New Mexico courts
Date enacted/published: October 2009

Description:

This is an extensive report to American University on three regional meetings of tribal and state court judges and court staff held to identify common concerns and begin crafting solutions. The approach was designed to improve the resolution of cross-jurisdictional issues. The process, participants, issues and potential solutions raised in each meeting is described in the report.

For additional information contact:
Kathy Spurgin
Statewide Program Manager
Administrative Office of the Courts
e-mail: aockbs@nmcourts.gov
phone: (505) 827-4808
Title: Report of Regional Meetings of the Tribal-State Judicial Consortium in 2010
Parties: New Mexico tribal courts, New Mexico courts
Date enacted/published: October 2010

Description:

This is an extensive report to American University on three regional meetings of judges and court staff held to identify common concerns and begin crafting solutions. The approach was designed to improve the resolution of cross-jurisdictional issues. The process, participants, issues and potential solutions are outlined in each meeting. For several years, the New Mexico Tribal-State Judicial Consortium has conducted meetings to help educate and train state and tribal judges about each other’s courts, laws, customs and traditions. The Regional Meetings offer a one-day format focusing on a specific topic, providing presentations by experts in the field and then offering participants an opportunity to discuss in small groups what they learned and apply that to hypothetical situations. The experience results in the judges identifying common problems across state and tribal jurisdictional boundaries, and in beginning to craft solutions to these problems through stronger relationships and better communications throughout the criminal justice system. The 2010 meetings focused on the SORNA provisions of the Adam Walsh Act and the implications regarding non-Indians on tribal lands.

For additional information contact:
Kathy Spurgin
Statewide Program Manager
Administrative Office of the Courts
e-mail: aockbs@nmcourts.gov
phone: (505) 827-4808
Title: The New Mexico Tribal-State Judicial Consortium & The Cross-Court Cultural Exchange (Accomplishments)
Parties: New Mexico tribal courts, New Mexico courts

Description:

Provides the history of the Tribal-State Judicial Consortium in New Mexico and lists its accomplishments.

For additional information contact:
Kathy Spurgin
Statewide Program Manager
Administrative Office of the Courts
e-mail: aockbs@nmcourts.gov
phone: (505) 827-4808
Title: Tribal-State Judicial Consortium
Parties: New Mexico tribal courts, New Mexico courts
Date enacted/published: ongoing

Description:

Growing from a New Mexico Supreme Court initiative in 1997, the Tribal-State Judicial Consortium was formally recognized as one of the Court’s advisory boards in November 2006. The Consortium was directed to strengthen relationships and foster communications between state and tribal courts through the development of basic information about each court, its laws, customs, and values. Specifically, the Consortium is to address the issues of full faith and credit, comity, jurisdiction, child abuse and neglect, juvenile justice and delinquency, custody, divorce, child support, and domestic violence. The web page provides links to information on their projects, upcoming meetings and conferences, minutes of meetings, history and general information on their operations.

For additional information contact:
Kathy Spurgin
Statewide Program Manager
Administrative Office of the Courts
e-mail: aockbs@nmcourts.gov
phone: (505) 827-4808
Title: Working Collaboratively: New Mexico’s Tribal-State Judicial Consortium,
Parties: New Mexico tribal courts, New Mexico courts
Date enacted/published: February 2002

Description:

Article in Vol. 5, Issue 1, ABA Child CourtWorks, 2002, describes the history of New Mexico’s Tribal-State Judicial Consortium, which grew out of the Tribal State Judicial Forums of 1997-1998. The Consortium is a collaborative effort between the New Mexico Supreme Court and the New Mexico & Colorado Indian Court Judges Association. Its primary mission was articulated at the first meeting in 1998: “[t]o address questions of jurisdiction and sovereignty, focusing at first in the areas of domestic violence, domestic relations and custody, child abuse and neglect, and juvenile justice, and perhaps expanding into other areas of law.”

For additional information contact:
Kathy Spurgin
Statewide Program Manager
Administrative Office of the Courts
e-mail: aockbs@nmcourts.gov
phone: (505) 827-4808