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Joint resolution authorizing the renewal of the State’s Attorney’s Juvenile Court Services Program Prosecution Support Grant, administered by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA), with $35,662 in federal funds for April 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013, and an emergency appropriation of $7,712.
Staff Summary
· This is a renewal of the Juvenile Court Services grant, formerly the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant, a federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) grant administered through the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA). Funding for this grant began in 1999 and has been renewed each year. Federal funding for this program has been approved through 2013.
· The purpose of this grant program is to retain a sixth Assistant State’s Attorney in the Juvenile Division to allow greater focus on violent juvenile offender prosecutions, and the reduction of overall case backlog.
· Program goals include: to continue funding support for 60% of one Assistant State’s Attorney (ASA) position; to assign all violent crime cases, to a specific ASA for case handling from arraignment through sentencing; and, charge all serious and violent crimes within a reasonable time period.
· The emergency appropriation of $7,712 is needed to accommodate the increase in award ($6,940) and match ($772) amounts, both of which will come from non-County sources.
· Sources of Program Funding include $35,662 in federal funds, $3,963 in matching funds provided from the State’s Attorney’s Asset Forfeiture Fund, and $20,856 in County contribution as budgeted in the State’s Attorney budget, for a grant program total of $60,481.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) has announced the continuation of a 12-month formula-based grant in the amount of $35,662 for the State’s Attorney’s Juvenile Court Services program, which will support the retention of prosecutors, in turn...
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