Byrne funds may be used for 26 different legislatively
authorized program purposes. These include the following:
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Demand-reduction education
programs in which law enforcement officers participate. |
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Multi-jurisdictional task force
programs to integrate Federal, State, and local drug law enforcement
agencies and prosecutors for the purpose of enhancing interagency
coordination and intelligence and facilitating multi-jurisdictional
investigations. |
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Programs to target the domestic
sources of controlled and illegal substances, such as precursor chemicals,
diverted pharmaceuticals, clandestine laboratories, and cannabis
cultivations. |
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Community and neighborhood
programs to assist citizens in preventing and controlling crime, including
special programs that address crimes committed against the elderly and crime
in rural jurisdictions. |
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Programs to disrupt illicit
commerce in stolen goods and property. |
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Programs to improve the
investigation and prosecution of white-collar crime, organized crime, public
corruption crime, and fraud against the Government, with priority attention
to cases involving drug-related official corruption. |
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Programs to improve the
operational effectiveness of law enforcement through the use of crime
analysis techniques, street sales enforcement, schoolyard violator programs,
and gang-related and low-income housing drug-control programs. |
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Programs to develop and implement
antiterrorism plans for deep draft ports, international airports, and other
important facilities. |
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Career criminal prosecution
programs, including the development of model drug-control legislation. |
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Financial investigative programs
to identify money laundering operations and assets obtained through illegal
drug trafficking, including the development of model legislation, financial
investigative training, and financial information-sharing systems. |
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Programs to improve the
operational effectiveness of the court process by expanding prosecutorial,
defender, and judicial resources and implementing court delay reduction
programs. |
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Programs to provide additional
public correctional resources and improve the corrections system, including
treatment in prisons and jails, intensive supervision programs, and
long-range corrections and sentencing strategies. |
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Prison industry projects to place
inmates in a realistic working and training environment that enables them to
develop marketable skills. With these skills inmates also are better able to
support their families and themselves in the institution and make financial
restitution to their victims. |
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Programs to identify and meet the
treatment needs of adult and juvenile drug- and alcohol-dependent
offenders. |
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Programs to provide assistance to
jurors and witnesses and assistance (other than compensation) to victims of
crime. |
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Programs to improve drug-control
technology such as pretrial drug-testing programs; programs to provide for
the identification, assessment, referral to treatment, case management, and
monitoring of drug-dependent offenders; and programs to enhance State and
local forensic laboratories. |
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Criminal justice information
systems to assist law enforcement, prosecution, courts, and corrections
organizations (including automated fingerprint identification systems). |
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Programs to demonstrate innovative
approaches to enforcement, prosecution, and adjudication of drug offenses
and other serious crimes. |
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Programs to address the problems
of drug trafficking and the illegal manufacture of controlled substances in
public housing. |
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Programs to improve the criminal
and juvenile justice system's response to domestic and family violence,
including spouse abuse, child abuse, and abuse of the elderly. |
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Programs with which State and
local units of government can evaluate State drug-control projects. |
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Programs to provide alternatives
to detention, jail, and prison for persons who pose no danger to the
community. |
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Programs to strengthen urban
enforcement and prosecution efforts targeted at street drug sales. |
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Programs to prosecute
driving-while-intoxicated charges and enforce other laws relating to alcohol
use and the operation of motor vehicles. |
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Programs to address the need for
effective bind over systems for the prosecution of violent 16- and
17-year-old juveniles for [certain enumerated] violent crimes in courts with
jurisdiction over adults. |
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Law enforcement and prevention
programs for gangs and youth who are involved in or are at risk of
involvement in gangs. |
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Programs to develop or improve
forensic laboratory capability to analyze DNA for identification proposes. |
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Programs to develop and implement
antiterrorism training and procure equipment for local law enforcement
authorities. |
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Programs to enforce child abuse
and neglect laws, including laws protecting against child sexual abuse,
and promoting programs designed to prevent child abuse and neglect. |
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Programs to establish or support
cooperative programs between law enforcement and media organizations, to
collect, record, retain and disseminate information useful in the
identification and apprehension of suspected criminal offenders. |
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Congress has authorized the use of
Byrne funds to support assisting in the litigation processing of death
penalty federal habeas corpus petitions (This authorization may or may not
be available in future funding cycles.) |
