Cass County JAG 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).

Cass County will utilize the Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant funds to underwrite a written business plan that will outline steps necessary to update the current law enforcement communications infrastructure in the County. The County's overall assessment of broadband communications issues is the result of a public/private partnership between one of the County's retained asset management professional consultants, Universal Asset Management, and the Cass County Commission. The Partnership's strategic communications goal is to identify near term broadband communications needs, interoperability issues and selected public agency requirements. The JAG award will be used to specifically fund the law enforcement analysis section of this overall communications planning document.

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