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US. Department of Justice 8 Office of Justice Programs \I; .. ~ "" ,/ Bureau of Justice Assistance "~.~,~' laney E. Gist, Director FY 1997 Local law Enforcement Block Grants Program The Omnibus Fiscal Year 1997 Appropriations Act, 0 Enhancin~ security measures in and around schools Public Law 104-208. provides $523 million for the and in and around any other facility or location that implementation of the Local Law Enforcement Block the unit of local government considers a special risk Grants (LLEBG) Program, to be administered by the for incidents of crime. Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), U.S. Department of 0 Establishing or supporting drug courts. To be Justice. The purpose of the LLEBG Program is to pro- eligible for funding, a drug court program must vide funds to units of local government to underwrite include the following: projects to reduce crime and improve public safety. 8 Continuing judicial supervision of nonviolent These projects must be funded in accordance with the offenders with substance abuse problems. seven purpose areas described below. 8 Integrating the administration of other sanc- Program Purpose Areas tions and services, which should include LLEBG Program funds may be used for one or more (i) mandatory periodic testing of each partici- pant for the use of controlled substances or of the following seven purpose areas: other addictive substances during any period of Law enforcement support for: supervised release or probation; (ii) substance 8 Hiring, training, and employing on a continuing abuse treatment for each participant; (iii) basis new, additional law enforcement officers probation or other supervised release involving and necessary support personnel. (If funds are possible prosecution, confinement, or incar- used for hiring law enforcement officers, there ceration because of noncompliance with must be a net gain over the unit of local program requirements or failure to show government's current appropriated budget in satisfactory progress; and (iv) programmatic the number of law enforcement officers who offender management and aftercare services perform nonadministrative public safety such as relapse prevention, vocational job service.) training, and job and housing placement. Paying overtime to presently employed law 0 Enhancing the adjudication of cases involving . violent offenders, including cases involving. violent enforcement officers and necessary support personnel for the purpose of increasing the juvenile offenders. For the purposes of this pro- number of hours worked by such personnel. gram, a violent offender is defined as a person charged with committing a Part I violent crime . Procuring equipment, technology, and other under the Uniform Crime Reports. material directly related to basic law enforce- ment functions. 0 Establishing, particularly in rural areas, a multijurisdictional task force composed of law Revised 3/27/97