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Committee approves District Attorney grant acceptances for victim assistance and technical assistance
Summary
The committee approved three District Attorney accept-and-expend items: a $75,000 revolving fund for verified emergency expenses for homicide victims and two Vera Institute technical assistance grants (approximately $400,000 and $230,000) to analyze prosecutorial decision making and improve data-driven operations.
A committee meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors advanced three District Attorney accept-and-expend resolutions that would authorize the office to accept state and private technical assistance funds for victim services and operational improvement.
Maria McKee, policy and grants manager for the District Attorney's Office, described the first resolution as a three-year revolving fund agreement with the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to pay verified funeral, burial, relocation and other emergency expenses for eligible homicide victims (program period July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2017) and a revolving fund amount of $75,000.
McKee also described two technical-assistance items from the Vera Institute of Justice: an in-kind prosecution and racial-justice program technical assistance valued at approximately $400,000 (for the 1/1/2014–6/30/2015 period) and a technical assistance grant of about $230,000 (for 6/1/2014–5/31/2016) to improve operational performance through research and data-driven prosecutorial practices.
"This grant provides critical and immediate funding to homicide victims in need of economic assistance," McKee told the committee, and she said the Vera Institute partnerships will help the office analyze prosecutorial decision making and develop policies to address unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities.
With no public comment on these items, the committee moved to send Items 4–6 forward to the full Board; the motion was seconded and taken without objection.
