Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2009, $3,946,436)
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) solicits applications for initiatives which assist law enforcement in rural states and rural areas. The program helps rural states and rural areas to prevent and combat crime, especially drug-related crime, and provides for national support efforts, including training and technical assistance programs strategically targeted to address rural needs.
The Assistance to Rural Law Enforcement to Combat Crime and Drugs Program, administered by BJA, helps rural states and rural areas prevent and combat crime, especially drug-related crime, and provides for national support efforts, including training and technical assistance programs strategically targeted to address rural needs. In addition, priority consideration will be given to local law enforcement agencies in rural areas where the unit of local government is not eligible to receive a direct allocation from the Recovery Act Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program or received a direct allocation that was $50,000 or less. Applicants were invited to submit a proposal under any one of the following categories to: (1) combat rural crime; (2) improve rural law enforcement investigations; (3) enhance rural detention and jail operations; (4) facilitate rural justice information sharing; or (5) develop a national training and technical assistance program.
Under Category 4, the Kentucky State Attorney General, Office of the Prosecutors Advisory Council ("PAC"), on behalf of the Kentucky County Attorneys, will provide funding and support for 100 County Attorney Offices serving rural areas to participate in the eWarrants system. The system will replace the current manual protocols for processing warrant information with an electronic method for making warrant information available via the Law Enforcement Information Network of Kentucky (LINK), the system used by law enforcement to transmit and retrieve information on active warrants. PAC will use these grant funds to support the positions of 17 Information Technology/eWarrants Network Support Specialists, one Training and Implementation Coordinator, one Training and Implementation Assistant, and three Backlog Reduction Specialists. Additional funds will be used to provide system training and purchase computers and software in order to implement the eWarrant system in these counties.
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