FY 2009 Justice Assistance Grant Program

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) allows states and units of local governments, including tribes, to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own state and local needs and conditions. Grant funds can be used for state and local initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, and information systems for criminal justice, including for any one or more of the following purpose areas: 1) law enforcement programs; 2) prosecution and court programs; 3) prevention and education programs; 4) corrections and community corrections programs; 5) drug treatment and enforcement programs; 6) planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs; and 7) crime victim and witness programs (other than compensation).

The disparate jurisdictions of the city of Frankfort and Franklin County will utilize their Fiscal Year 2009 JAG award in the amount of $22,898 to enable more police officers to have video and audio documentation through in-car video camera equipment, making the officers and the public safer. Identity of suspects would be permanently documented and used for intelligence sharing. Evidence would also prove extremely valuable for any judicial proceedings.

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