PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Creates a Community Capacity Development Office inside the Department of Justice, led by a Director the Attorney General appoints. The Director answers to the Attorney General and can only pass authority down to the Assistant Attorney General, who may not pass it on further. The Office must give training to current and future participants in the programs listed under section 10103(b) so they understand the rules and procedures. It is the only part of the Department that does this work, and any such work done elsewhere before January 5, 2006 was moved here. Grant-making offices may still offer specialized training in their own areas. The Director, working with other DOJ leaders, will carry out the work by coordinating public and private resources, providing information, training, and technical help, supporting task forces and program reviews, and helping evaluate community-based law enforcement and crime prevention with the National Institute of Justice, among other similar actions. Training is usually given regionally, but remedial training can be local for one participant if recommended. The Director must find grant models that clearly worked, learn what made them work, and use those lessons in training. Up to 3 percent of yearly funds for the programs under section 10103(b) must be set aside for the Office.

Title 34, §10106

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(a)Establishment

(1)In general

There is established within the Office a Community Capacity Development Office, headed by a Director appointed by the Attorney General. In carrying out the functions of the Office, the Director shall be subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Attorney General. Such authority, direction, and control may be delegated only to the Assistant Attorney General, without redelegation.

(2)Purpose

The purpose of the Office shall be to provide training to actual and prospective participants under programs covered by section 10103(b) of this title to assist such participants in understanding the substantive and procedural requirements for participating in such programs.

(3)Exclusivity

The Office shall be the exclusive element of the Department of Justice performing functions and activities for the purpose specified in paragraph (2). There are hereby transferred to the Office all functions and activities for such purpose performed immediately before January 5, 2006, by any other element of the Department. This does not preclude a grant-making office from providing specialized training and technical assistance in its area of expertise.

(b)Means

The Director shall, in coordination with the heads of the other elements of the Department, carry out the purpose of the Office through the following means:

(1)Promoting coordination of public and private efforts and resources within or available to States, units of local government, and neighborhood and community-based organizations.

(2)Providing information, training, and technical assistance.

(3)Providing support for inter

and intra-agency task forces and other agreements and for assessment of the effectiveness of programs, projects, approaches, or practices.

(4)Providing in the assessment of the effectiveness of neighborhood and community-based law enforcement and crime prevention strategies and techniques, in coordination with the National Institute of Justice.

(5)Any other similar means.

(c)Locations

Training referred to in subsection (a) shall be provided on a regional basis to groups of such participants. In a case in which remedial training is appropriate, as recommended by the Director or the head of any element of the Department, such training may be provided on a local basis to a single such participant.

(d)Best practices

The Director shall—

(1)identify grants under which clearly beneficial outcomes were obtained, and the characteristics of those grants that were responsible for obtaining those outcomes; and

(2)incorporate those characteristics into the training provided under this section.

(e)Availability of funds

not to exceed 3 percent of all funding made available for a fiscal year for the programs covered by section 10103(b) 1 of this title shall be reserved for the Community Capacity Development Office for the activities authorized by this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 10103(b) of this title, referred to in subsecs. (a)(2) and (e), probably should be a reference to section 10109(b) of this title because section 10103(b) relates to Director assistance and section 10109(b) specifically sets out covered programs. January 5, 2006, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), was in the original “the date of the enactment of this Act” and was translated as meaning the date of enactment of Pub. L. 109–162, which enacted this section, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 3712e of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Some section numbers or references in amendment notes below reflect the classification of such sections or references prior to editorial reclassification.

Amendments

2006—Subsecs. (a)(2), (e). Pub. L. 109–217 substituted “section 3712a(b)” for “section 3712d(b)”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1159(b), Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3117, provided that: “This section [enacting this section] and the amendment made by this section take effect 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Jan. 5, 2006].”

§10106 Community Capacity Development Office