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District attorney asks commissioners to accept $18,000 GAP grant to bolster gang investigations
Summary
District Attorney Robert Lane asked the board to authorize acceptance of an $18,000 GAP grant from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency to support investigative software and a gang prosecution unit.
District Attorney Robert Lane asked commissioners to authorize the county to accept an $18,000 grant from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency for a gang- and organized-crime prosecution program.
Lane said the GAP grant funds a software investigative resource the office uses to track gang members and their activity. He said prosecutors must document organized-crime involvement to seek prosecution enhancements under the Georgia Street Gang and Terrorism Prevention Act and that the software helps build that evidence. Lane said the county has used the software for about nine months and that it enabled identification of new gangs and members in a neighboring county example he cited.
Lane said the grant funds will not come from county general revenue; they are provided by the state agency. He described the software as an investigative resource and said the office has already started creating a dedicated gang prosecution unit by hiring a 12‑year veteran gang prosecutor from another metro county.
Lane invited questions; no formal vote or final action on accepting the grant is recorded in the transcript provided.
