(in alphabetical order)
PROJECT: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Child Protection Health Teams Expansion
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
ADDRESS: 1600 Tullie Circle, Atlanta, GA 30329
FUNDING REQUEST: $1,124,276
BACKGROUND: Would fund the creation of the regional Child Protection Health Teams (CPHT) to provide medical and mental health assessments and treatment to suspected victims of child abuse and neglect throughout Georgia.
PROJECT: DeKalb County Ballistic Identification Laboratory
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: DeKalb County, Georgia
ADDRESS: 1300 Commerce Drive, Decatur, GA 30030
FUNDING REQUEST: $925,000
BACKGROUND: The Ballistic Identification Laboratory would establish a program to identify and track firearms used during the commission of crimes of violence in DeKalb County, as well as those recovered by other local and regional agencies, which is critical to the safety of our community at large.
PROJECT: DeKalb County Crime Reduction Through Video Surveillance Project
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: DeKalb County, Georgia
ADDRESS: 1960 West Exchange Place, Tucker, GA 30084
FUNDING REQUEST: $ 1,000,000
BACKGROUND: The Dekalb County Crime Reduction through Video Surveillance Project will enhance the DeKalb County Police Department’s continuing efforts to eliminate gun violence and drug activity. This project would allow the DeKalb County Police Department to equip each of its five precincts with sufficient surveillance capabilities. These systems will provide the DeKalb County Police Department with the flexibility to be mobile and transition with crime as it moves from one area to another. They will also serve as a force multiplier by allowing surveillance of multiple high crime areas without impacting the current workforce. Additionally, these systems will also help to reduce drug trafficking, associated gun crimes, and the overall reduction of county-wide crime.
PROJECT: DeKalb County Gunshot Location System
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: DeKalb County, Georgia
ADDRESS: 1960 West Exchange Place, Tucker, Ga 30084
FUNDING REQUEST: $1,200,000
BACKGROUND: DeKalb County, and the Metro-Atlanta region as a whole, has one of the highest rates of crime involving the use of firearms in the southeast. DeKalb County is seeking funds to bolster its ability to reduce gun related crimes through the technological use of a gunshot location system. This system detects gunshots and triangulates the location, which is sent to the dispatchers or the officer’s mobile display terminal. This system would be incorporated into DeKalb County Police Department’s existing infrastructure and consists of sensors, communications network, base station, a workstation (computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse) for monitoring, and licenses for DeKalb to install the monitoring software computers. The DeKalb Police Department has specific areas that are substantially higher in gun crimes than others. Therefore, this equipment would be used to target those vicinities in which gun related crimes are highest.
PROJECT: Gwinnett County Police Department Equipment
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: Gwinnett County, Georgia
ADDRESS: 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30045
FUNDING REQUEST: $809,900
BACKGROUND: This request would fund tools and equipment to be used by first responder law enforcement officers in Gwinnett County, GA, including sidearms, license plate recognition systems, tasers, thermal imagers, and bicycles.
PROJECT: HIV/Prisoner Re-Entry Program (Georgia State Univ.)
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: Georgia State University
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 3965, Atlanta, GA 30302
FUNDING REQUEST: $500,000
BACKGROUND: Georgia State University requests funding to expand its innovative prison release preparation program for HIV infected inmates in Georgia. Individuals returning to the community from prison are challenged with re-integrating with family and friends, finding housing and employment, and getting access to health care. Individuals with HIV infection have the additional challenge of access to health care, support of complex therapeutic regimens, and continued reinforcement of behaviors that reduce the risk of transmission.
PROJECT: Mentorship and Education: Rebuilding Communities Initiative
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: Thurgood Marshall College Fund
ADDRESS: 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 2204, New York, NY 10038
FUNDING REQUEST: $5,000,000
BACKGROUND: This initiative will deliver quality education programs, enhance supplemental learning opportunities and increase services to Public Historically Black Colleges & Universities, their communities and students. It will significantly equip and partner African-American male mentors with at-risk middle and high school male students of color, particularly African American, certifying advocates and role models for the youth within local communities.
PROJECT: Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office Financial Crimes Task Force
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: DeKalb County, Georgia
ADDRESS: 962 Milstead Avenue, Conyers, GA 30012
FUNDING REQUEST: $ 339,500
BACKGROUND: The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office is a full-service Sheriff’s Office providing complete law enforcement services to approximately 85,000 residents in the metropolitan Atlanta county. The Sheriff’s Office is committed to providing technological capabilities to maximize law enforcement efforts for deputies and citizens, and has identified key components that would build upon the present mobile data system, including a digital camera storage system, handheld computers for criminal investigations, a GPS/AVL network to record movements of mobile units, thermal imaging devices, and fingerprint identification technology.
PROJECT: Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement Data Network
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: DeKalb County, Georgia
ADDRESS: 962 Milstead Avenue, Conyers, GA 30012
FUNDING REQUEST: $188,000
BACKGROUND: The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office is requesting funding for investigators to prevent and investigate financial crimes, identity theft, and other economic electronic crimes.
PROJECT: Safe Streets Mobile Command Post
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office
ADDRESS: 4415 Memorial Drive, Decatur, GA 30032
FUNDING REQUEST: $ 347,187
BACKGROUND: The acquisition of a Mobile Command Post that would enable the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office to respond more efficiently and effectively during small/medium/large critical incidents and a variety of often-complicated rescue situations.
PROJECT: Spelman College Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: Spelman College
ADDRESS: 350 Spelman Lane, SW Atlanta, GA 30314
FUNDING REQUEST: $2,600,000
BACKGROUND: The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Scholars Program at Spelman College provides scholarship and high impact academic support for highly qualified students majoring in the physical sciences, mathematics, or dual degree engineering.
PROJECT: Youth Violence Prevention Initiative of Atlanta (Georgia State Univ.)
DESIGNATED RECIPIENT: Georgia State University
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 3965, Atlanta, GA 30302
FUNDING REQUEST: $900,000
BACKGROUND: Georgia State University requests funding to help establish a nationally recognized center of excellence to address youth violence, “The Youth Violence Prevention Initiative of Atlanta” (YVPIA). The mission of the YVPIA will be to work collaboratively to build community capacity for youth violence prevention in the City of Atlanta, to significantly reduce youth perpetrated violence, to improve the scholastic performance of students in the city’s most affected schools, and to further research the causes and prevention of youth violence nationally.
PROGRAM: Community Oriented Policing Services
FUNDING LEVEL REQUEST: $1,047,119,000
BACKGROUND: The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (the COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation's state, local, territory, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources.
PROGRAM: Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program
FUNDING LEVEL REQUEST: $65,000,000
BACKGROUND: The Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program provides financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments to develop and implement treatment drug courts that effectively integrate substance abuse treatment, mandatory drug testing, sanctions and incentives, and transitional services in a judicially supervised court setting with jurisdiction over nonviolent, substance-abusing offenders.
PROGRAM: Economic Development Administration
FUNDING LEVEL REQUEST: $400,000,000
BACKGROUND: The Economic Development Administration (EDA) was established under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. § 3121), as amended, to generate jobs, help retain existing jobs, and stimulate industrial and commercial growth in economically distressed areas of the United States. EDA assistance is available to rural and urban areas of the Nation experiencing high unemployment, low income, or other severe economic distress. In fulfilling its mission, EDA is guided by the basic principle that distressed communities must be empowered to develop and implement their own economic development and revitalization strategies. Based on these locally- and regionally-developed priorities, EDA works in partnership with state and local governments, regional economic development districts, public and private nonprofit organizations, and Indian tribes. EDA helps distressed communities address problems associated with long-term economic distress, as well as sudden and severe economic dislocations including recovering from the economic impacts of natural disasters, the closure of military installations and other Federal facilities, changing trade patterns, and the depletion of natural resources.
PROGRAM: Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program
FUNDING LEVEL REQUEST: $1,000,000
BACKGROUND: In November 2004, Congress consolidated two long-standing local law enforcement grant programs: the
The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (Byrne/JAG) is a partnership among federal, state, and local governments to create safer communities. BJA awards grants to states and local governments to improve the criminal justice system. The program places an emphasis on breaking the cycle of substance abuse and crime, combating violence, holding offenders accountable, enhancing law enforcement initiatives, and supporting advancements in adjudication.
PROGRAM: Legal Services Corporation
FUNDING LEVEL REQUEST: $516,500,000
BACKGROUND: LSC is the single largest provider of civil legal aid for the poor in the nation. Established in 1974, LSC operates as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that promotes equal access to justice and provides grants for high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Americans. LSC distributes more than 95 percent of its total funding to 136 independent nonprofit legal aid programs with more than 900 offices that provide legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout the nation.
PROGRAM: Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program
FUNDING LEVEL REQUEST: $129,700,000
BACKGROUND: The MEP is a Federal-state-local partnership that enhances competitiveness of
PROGRAM: Regional Information Sharing Activities
FUNDING LEVEL REQUEST: $65,000,000
BACKGROUND: Regional information sharing activities have helped local, state, federal and tribal law enforcement agencies share criminal and intelligence information in order to coordinate efforts and more effectively combat terrorism and criminal activity. Regional information sharing activities offer secure communications, access to intelligence databases, and investigative resources and services—such as analytical support, equipment loans, confidential funds, field staff support, technical support, training, research, publications, and officer safety. In many cases, these are services that law enforcement agencies would not have access to without adequate support.
PROGRAM: Second Chance Act
FUNDING LEVEL REQUEST: $100,000,000
BACKGROUND: The Second Chance Act of 2007: Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention (H.R.1593/S.1060) is federal legislation designed to ensure the safe and successful return of prisoners to the community. Each year, as approximately 650,000 people are released from state and federal prisons and between 10 and 12 million more are released from local jails, they struggle with substance abuse, lack of adequate education and job skills, and mental health issues. The Second Chance Act will provide grants to local governments and organizations to help provide literacy classes, job training, education programs, and substance abuse and rehabilitation programs for offenders. The bill takes another step toward the goal of reducing the nationwide recidivism rate, which, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics is over 50 percent, and decreasing the billions of dollars spent annually on incarceration.