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Looking for hope and change in the DOJ part of the Obama budget

By Douglas A. Berman

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Via whitehouse.gov, I discovered that the full text of the budget for Fiscal Year 2010 is on the website of the Office of Management and Budget. And here is a link to a few pages discussing funding for the Department of Justice, which starts this way: The President?s Budget for the Department of Justice (DOJ) is $26.5 billion. The Budget addresses the key priorities of the President and the Attorney General, including those for National Security and crime fighting programs in the FBI and other DOJ components, to include resources for combating financial fraud and protecting the public interest. The Budget funds the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) hiring program, ensures that prison and detention programs are adequately funded, to include prisoner reentry programs, reinvigorates Federal civil rights enforcement, and increases border security...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).