MLC Innovations Selection Committee
Since 1975, the Innovations Awards Program of The Council of
State Governments has identified and disseminated information on
innovative policies or programs which have been successfully
implemented by individual states and have the potential to be
adopted for use in other states. CSG’s Innovations program takes its
cue from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis: "It is
one of those happy incidents of the Federal System that a single
courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory
and try novel social and economic experimentation without risk to
the rest of the country.”
CSG’s Innovations Awards Program was
designed to afford greater public visibility to the innovative and
exemplary state programs selected each year and to facilitate the
transfer of those successful experiences to other states. Each year,
the Innovations Selection Committee
of the Midwestern Legislative
Conference chooses two programs from the
Midwest to receive the CSG Innovations Awards.
The Innovations Selection Committee, chaired by
South Dakota Sen. Jim Peterson and Iowa Rep. Cindy Winckler, met
during the 63rd MLC Annual Meeting to select the winners
of the 2008 Innovations Awards from the Midwest region. The programs
chosen for the 2008 awards include: South Dakota's
24/7 Sobriety Program and Michigan's Video
Testimony Project.
The Innovations Committee considered 10 outstanding Midwestern
programs for the 2008 Innovations Awards. These programs included:
For more information about CSG's Innovations Awards Program,
click here.
For more information, contact:
Stacie Fallon
last updated:
July 28, 2008
