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Board committee backs MacArthur and state grants to sustain jail reforms and prosecute retail theft
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee forwarded a $1.2M MacArthur Foundation sustainability grant and a roughly $2.05M state grant for organized retail theft prosecution to the full Board; prosecutors said the grants fund cross-system jail disparities work and a vertical- prosecution team.
The Budget & Finance Committee on Jan. 17 voted to forward two District Attorney's Office grant requests to the full Board: a $1.2 million sustainability grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for the Safety and Justice Challenge (Jan. 1, 2023'Dec. 31, 2025) and a roughly $2.05 million reimbursement grant from the California Board of State and Community Corrections to fund vertical prosecution of organized retail theft (Oct. 1, 2023'Jun. 1, 2027).
Tara Agnesi,…
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