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State DOC grant cut reduces local criminal-justice funding; prosecutor diversion eliminated
Summary
Board members were told state Department of Corrections grant awards will shrink overall, leaving community corrections funded in full but eliminating prosecutor diversion funding and reducing drug court support; local leaders said they will seek other funding and rely on existing reserve accounts.
At a meeting of the advisory board, Director Bill reported that the state Department of Corrections grant award for local programs was reduced from $489,766 this year to $397,802 for the next year, an 18% cut to the county—s overall request. "The grant has been cut. It was cut from $489,000 to 397,000, which was, that's an 18% cut," Bill said.
The cuts were targeted across program areas rather than applied as a flat percentage, Bill said: the county—s community corrections request of $362,802 was approved in full; the drug court request of $65,000 was funded at $35,000 (a $30,000 reduction); and the prosecutor—s diversion request of $61,964 received no funding. "We requested 61,964 for the prosecutor's diversion, and they funded 0 of that," Bill said.
Why it matters: the prosecutor diversion position and certain drug-court…
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