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Cascade County considers $3,200 budget appropriation for Internet Crimes Against Children task force
Summary
County staff presented a request to appropriate $3,200 left from a Montana Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force grant to be spent before Sept. 30, 2025; no formal vote is recorded in the transcript.
Cascade County commissioners heard a request to appropriate $3,200 in remaining funds from a Montana Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force grant during a work session. A staff member introduced the item as "resolution 25-22, Budget appropriation increasing funds for the 2024 Internet crimes against children task force grant budget."
The county's presenter, Angel Creech, identified herself as being "with the Cascade County Sheriff's Office" and said the county is a recipient of a Division of Criminal Investigation grant administered through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Creech said the OJJDP approved continuation funding for year three of the ICAC task force grant and that the current grant cycle runs Oct. 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2027, with award letters issued annually.
Creech said Montana ICAC commander Brian Cassidy conducted a rebalancing of accounts from a prior period and identified an additional $3,200 that must be spent before Sept. 30, 2025; the Cascade County Sheriff's Office is proposing to budget those funds in the current fiscal year. "As a result, Brian Cassidy ... identified an additional $3,200 available to be spent prior to 09/30/2025," Creech said, and a copy of Cassidy's letter was included in the meeting packet.
The record does not show a formal motion, a second or a roll-call vote on the appropriation in the provided transcript. The transcript also does not state how the funds will specifically be used beyond the general ICAC task force purpose of supporting responses to technology-facilitated child exploitation and other internet crimes against children.
The OJJDP program description included in the packet notes the grant supports state and local law enforcement work on technology-facilitated child exploitation. The transcript does not record additional budget details, a legal citation beyond the grant number, or a final outcome on the appropriation.
