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SB 304 Crime Prevention in Minority Communities Program and Fund; created.

Introduced by: John S. Edwards | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Crime Prevention in Minority Communities Program and Fund. Creates the Crime Prevention in Minority Communities Program and Fund, consisting of five urban inner-city minority communities with high crime rates and attendant social and economic problems. The Board of Criminal Justice Services is required to develop the Program and the Department of Criminal Justice Services must administer the Program and Fund. An advisory committee, whose members must represent a multi-disciplinary network of persons and organizations with expertise, experience, and interest in preventing and reducing crime in the minority community, is charged to assist the Department with the Program. State-funded grants are to be awarded to eligible communities on a competitive basis through the issuance of a request for proposals. Such communities are required to engage in various activities and perform several tasks directed toward community involvement, consensus building, dispelling myths about minorities, and preventing and reducing crime in the minority community. Further, eligible communities must also encourage the cooperation and participation of residents in the Program, and engage business and industry, minority community organizations and professional associations, the religious community, citizens, and local agencies in the community in fighting crime. This bill, substantially revised, was the recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Status and Needs of African-American Males in Virginia in 1999.


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