About Justice Beacon Solutions

Stephanie L. Fleming, PhD, MS is the founder and principal of Justice Beacon Solutions, LLC and the creator of Justice Decision Observability™ (JDO™) -- the first governance discipline built specifically to document how humans interpret, rely on, and act on AI-supported outputs in justice decision-making environments.

Fleming introduced Justice Decision Observability™ to address a structural oversight gap that most institutions have not yet named: the space between what AI systems produce and what humans do with that information. Her work establishes that this space -- where discretion is exercised, where policy meets operational pressure, and where decisions are made and justified -- is currently ungoverned and undocumented in most justice environments.

With more than 28 years embedded across the justice and behavioral health ecosystem, Fleming brings to governance work a perspective that is simultaneously clinical, academic, operational, and lived. Formerly a licensed mental health therapist specializing in trauma and EMDR, an adjunct professor in psychology and research methods, and a practitioner who worked directly inside correctional institutions, she also navigated the criminal legal system as a justice-impacted individual -- giving her an applied understanding of institutional decision-making that no credential alone can produce.

Her work is grounded in social psychology, research methodology, and the study of human behavior in high-stakes institutional environments -- disciplines that together form the analytical foundation for everything Justice Beacon Solutions produces.

That work has produced a complete governance architecture for the field she created: Justice Decision Observability™ (JDO™), the Deployment Context Risk Review (DCRR™), Critical Event Governance Reconstruction (CEGR™), Decision Risk Pattern Intelligence (DRPI™), the Justice Beacon Doctrine Framework™ (JB-DOF™), and JAOGS™ v1.0 -- the Justice Automated Operational Governance Standard, for which Justice Beacon Solutions serves as the certifying authority.

Janna M. Broaddus is the Director of Operations at Justice Beacon Solutions, LLC and a co-author of the foundational documents defining Justice Decision Observability™ (JDO™). She leads operational governance processes, documentation integrity, and structured oversight coordination across all JBS engagements.

Broaddus oversees governance reviews, documentation protocols, and structured reporting used to capture how human decision-makers interpret, rely on, and act on AI-supported outputs in real-world justice environments. Her work ensures that every JBS engagement produces governance-grade documentation that institutions can rely on during oversight inquiries, incident review, litigation, or internal accountability processes.

Her contribution to JBS is rooted in both operational expertise and lived experience. Broaddus brings extensive direct experience working in reentry, recovery-oriented services, and justice-impacted communities -- supporting individuals affected by incarceration, substance use, and behavioral health challenges. That background provides applied insight into how institutional design, operational pressure, and systemic gaps shape the decision environments JBS is built to document.

Broaddus is also a justice-impacted individual who rebuilt her professional path through sustained commitment to governance work. Her academic training is grounded in human behavior, psychology, and the dynamics of correctional environments -- providing the analytical foundation that informs how she approaches governance documentation in high-stakes institutional settings.

As a co-author of Justice Decision Observability™ framework materials, Broaddus plays a central role in translating governance concepts into operational documentation practices that institutions can implement, sustain, and defend. Her work demonstrates that the most credible governance insight comes from people who understand what is actually at stake.