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Tracking new federal stimulus money for Texas law enforcement

I was scanning the Texas Register today, which is something I don't do often enough (lots of blog fodder), and ran across an interesting pattern: Several regional COGs (Councils of Government) have been meeting this week, many of them yesterday, to evaluate recommendations for spending the enlarged Byrne grant fund that was part of the federal stimulus package.A helpful gal from from the Deep East Texas Council of Goverments filled me in on what was happening with the federal criminal stimulus money from a local perspective. The process began, she said, with eligible agencies - police, sheriffs, juvenile probation departments, etc. - sending proposals directly to the Governor's Criminal Justice Division. The governor's office then forwarded all proposals from their region to the appropriate COG and asked them to prioritize them (the Deep Easts Texas COG will receive $870,796...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).