Preventing Violence
An ARRA two-year grant will sustain and expand  One Vision One Life (OVOL) by providing for the compensation of three current Community Coordinators and the hiring of three additional Community Coordinators. OVOL, the DHS-contracted Allegheny County Violence Prevention program, works in the high-risk Pittsburgh neighborhoods of the Northside, the Hill District, the Southside, Homewood North and Garfield Heights as well as in several communities outside the city, including McKeesport and McKees Rocks. The program focuses intervention and outreach on those most at risk for participating in or falling victim to violence, young African American men. This Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive grant is through the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance. The grant will provide funding to OVOL through July of 2011.
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$331,025 |
Gun Violence Unit
This program funds the salaries of two Gun Violence Unit Detectives and four Attorneys. These detectives and attorneys work together in the Gun Violence Unit to continue efforts to successfully strategize on how to focus on repeated offenders and those individuals who have been identified as violent threats to the community.
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$660,000 |
Local Justice Assistance Grant
This award will provide funding for equipment and technology for Allegheny County and 34 cities, boroughs and townships. More detailed information on the allocation and use of funds can be found in the JAG Stimulus Allocation news release.
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$3,247,759 |
Mental Health Court Support
Funding to enhance the Public Defenders' Mental Health Court support staff operation with the goal of enhancing court filings and office file organization including tracking and managing client referrals.
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$76,006 |
Juvenile Defender Attorney
This funding will provide for a public defender attorney for the Juvenile Division to permit reduction in individual caseloads, and allow for more time for attorney preparation to allow for a more effective post-disposition practice.
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$137,500 |
Crime & Delinquency – Crisis Intervention
This funding will allow for training of additional officers from the 109 municipal police departments within Allegheny County for the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT). The CIT educates law enforcement about the characteristics of mental illness and provides training designed to teach officers how to de-escalate calls involving mental health and behavioral health issues.
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$150,000
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Crime & Delinquency – Tagging, Tracking and Locating System
This initiative will analyze the use of geo-location technologies leveraging Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to track and ensure the accountability of parolees, including sexual and violent offenders.
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$282,480 |
Crime & Delinquency – Adult Probation
This funding will allow for the retention of several Adult Probation Officers, who carry significantly large caseloads while supervising offenders in the community.
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$200,000 |
Crime & Delinquency – School-Based Probation
This funding will preserve approximately 41 Juvenile School-based Probation Officers. These officers work in the schools in 21 districts across Allegheny County, monitoring and engaging delinquent youth offenders in effective case management in their communities.
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$1,050,000
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Crime & Delinquency – Probation Day Reporting Center
The 2nd Day Reporting Center will be a multi-service center that will increase the level of supervision of probationers and provide a multitude of needed offender services. The services that will be offered will address drug and alcohol issues, education, job training, and life skills, among other things.
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$300,000
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Crime & Delinquency – E-filing Enhancements
This project will expand the e-filing capabilities of the Court and Department of Court Records to other divisions of the Court. Capabilities include accepting e-filed court orders and other documents, which will allow litigants to e-file documents with the Court and Department of Court Records. They will also be able to provide electronic service of e-filed court orders to all case participants and incorporate Business Activity Monitoring.
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$451,774 |
Crime & Delinquency – Reintegration Peer Mentoring
The Allegheny County Jail Collaborative Reintegration program will be an integral part of the reentry system that is being built among Probation, Human Services, the Courts, Health Department, and the Jail.
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$145,950 |
Subtotal
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$7,032,494 |