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Joint resolution authorizing the renewal of the State’s Attorney’s Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Prosecution grant agreement #409023 awarded by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, including $204,858 in federal funds.
Staff Summary
· This is a renewal of the Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Prosecution Program, a federal grant administered through the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA). Funding for this grant began in 1988 and has been renewed each year.
· The federal funds will provide funding for 80% of the salaries of one Drug Prosecution/Asset Forfeiture Division Chief, one Assistant State’s Attorney and one trained Police Investigator dedicated to the prosecution of drug related offenses covering the time period October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012.
· Program goals include: Deterring drug-related crime through criminal investigations and prosecution (from October 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011, the State’s Attorney’s Office initiated 493 felony drug prosecutions) and improving the quality of multi-jurisdictional prosecutions of drug offenders.
· Sources of Program Funding include federal funds in the amount of $204,858; matching funds from Asset Forfeiture Fund in the amount of $30,000; and a County contribution in the amount of $91,700, for a grant program total of $326,558.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) has announced the continuation of a 12-month grant in the amount of $204,858 in federal funds for the State’s Attorney’s Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Prosecution program to provide concentration on convictions of drug-related cases and offenders; and
WHEREAS, the grant program will fund a portion of the salaries for one Division Chief, one Assistant State’s Attorneys and one investigator in the Drug Prosecutions Division; and
WHEREAS, the program budget of $326,558, as submitted to ICJIA, consists of $204,858 federal funds, $30,000 from State’s Attorney’s ...
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