FY24 Middle District of Georgia PSN

The Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) will serve as the fiscal agent for the Middle District of Georgia's United States Attorney's Office (District) for the FY 2024 Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative. CJCC seeks to use PSN funds on violent crime reduction throughout the Middle District with a primary focus in four of its population centers, Albany, Columbus, Athens, and Macon. Each of these communities have experienced steady increases in violent crime rates during the past calendar year and the current trends indicate that the surge of violent crime has not decreased.
The PSN Task Force for the District has a site in each of these four communities comprised of federal, state and local law enforcement partners. The District intends to utilize data for violent crime incident, gun crime, gun confiscation, calls for police service, and incident reports, to identify the areas of each community which are plagued by gun violence. Additionally, the District utilizes Task Force meetings to review crime data as well as pretrial data from local prosecutors and federal prosecutors, the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, and other crime-related data. Task force meetings have led to the creation of a priority offender list that has led to an increase in PSN indictments to date since its inception on February 1, 2018. 
 
The District will utilize the grant funds to achieve a reduction in gun violence and diminish gang recruitment and operation by working with stakeholders and community partners. A portion of grant funds will be used to fund the efforts of local gang task force units who supports PSN initiatives throughout the Middle District.