Crime Prevention and Community Justice Act of 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title I: Model Intensive Grant Programs

Title II: Ounce of Prevention Grant Programs

Subtitle A: Ounce of Prevention Grant Programs

Subtitle B: Family and Community Endeavor Schools Grant

Program

Subtitle C: Administration

Title III: Police Partnership for Children

Title IV: Midnight Sports

Title V: Drug Courts

Title VI: Community Youth Academies

Title VII: Police Recruitment

Title VIII: National Triad Program

Title IX: Local Partnership Act

Title X: Youth Employment and Skills Crime Prevention Program

Title XI: Miscellaneous

Crime Prevention and Community Justice Act of 1994 - Title I: Model Intensive Grant Programs - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to not more than 15 chronic high intensive crime areas to develop comprehensive model crime prevention programs that involve and utilize a broad spectrum of community resources, attempt to relieve conditions that encourage crime, and provide meaningful and lasting alternatives to involvement in crime. Directs the Attorney General to give priority in awarding grants to proposals that are innovative in approach to the prevention of crime in a specific area and that vary in approach.

(Sec. 102) Sets forth provisions regarding program, application, and reporting requirements and permissible uses of funds.

(Sec. 107) Authorizes appropriations.

Title II: Ounce of Prevention Grant Programs - Subtitle A: Ounce of Prevention Grant Programs - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to: (1) convene an interagency task force to be known as the Ounce of Prevention Council, chaired by the Attorney General, the Secretary of Education, and the Secretary, to advise and counsel the Secretary regarding administration of programs established by this title; and (2) ensure that funding provided under this title shall be used primarily for assistance in distressed communities and for individuals in any area who are particularly in need.

(Sec. 202) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States, local governments, educational institutions, coalitions, community service organizations, State and local educational agencies, and other public and private entities for: (1) summer and after-school programs; (2) mentoring, tutoring, and other programs involving participation by adult role models; (3) programs assisting and promoting employability and job placement; and (4) substance abuse treatment and prevention, including outreach programs for at-risk families.

Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give preference to coalitions consisting of a broad spectrum of community-based and social service organizations that have a coordinated team approach to reducing gang membership and the effects of substance abuse, and providing alternatives to at-risk youth.

Subtitle B: Family and Community Endeavor Schools Grant Program - Directs the Secretary of Education, for a fiscal year in which the sums reserved to carry out this section equal or exceed $20 million, to allocate to community-based organizations in each State an amount bearing the same ratio to such sums as the number of children in the State who are from families with incomes below the poverty line bears to the number of children in all States who are from families with incomes below the poverty line. Authorizes such Secretary, for such a fiscal year, to award grants from the appropriate State allocation on a competitive basis to eligible community-based organizations to pay for the Federal share of assisting eligible communities to develop and carry out programs under this subtitle.

Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) reallocation of funds; and (2) fiscal years in which the sums reserved by such Secretary are less than $20 million.

(Sec. 212) Requires a community-based organization that receives a grant under this subtitle to: (1) ensure that such program is carried out in a public school or another appropriate local facility that is easily accessible to children in the community and in compliance with applicable local ordinances; and (2) use such funds to provide to children in the eligible community services and activities that include supervised sports programs and extracurricular and academic programs offered after school and on weekends and holidays during the school year and as daily full- or part-day programs during the summer months and programs such as curriculum-based supervised educational programs, work force preparation, enterpreneurship, cultural programs, arts and crafts, health, dance, tutorial and mentoring programs.

Authorizes the use of such funds for the renovation of facilities and to develop or expand programs designed to improve academic and social development of at-risk children by instituting a collaborative structure that trains and coordinates the efforts of teachers, administrators, social workers, guidance counselors, parents, and school volunteers to provide concurrent social services for at-risk students. Prohibits the use of such funds to provide sectarian worship or instruction.

(Sec. 213) Requires a community-based organization, to be eligible to receive grant funds, to identify an eligible community to be assisted that meets certain criteria, such as significant poverty and significant juvenile delinquency.

(Sec. 214) Sets forth application requirements and requirements concerning eligibility of participants, including parental approval. Requires that all information and application forms be in a format and language accessible to and understandable to the parent or guardian of the child.

(Sec. 216) Directs such Secretary to establish a peer review panel comprised of individuals with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing community-based programs.

(Sec. 217) Authorizes such Secretary to conduct such investigations and inspections as necessary to ensure compliance with provisions of this subtitle.

(Sec. 218) Sets forth requirements regarding: (1) payments to community-based organizations, the Federal share, and the non-Federal share; and (2) program evaluation.

Subtitle C: Administration - Authorizes such Secretary to provide technical assistance, training, and evaluations to further the purposes of, and conduct or support evaluations of programs that receive support under, this title.

(Sec. 232) Authorizes appropriations.

Title III: Police Partnership for Children - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to partnerships (i.e., cooperative arrangements or associations involving one or more law enforcement agencies and one or more public or private agencies that provide child or family services) for: (1) teams or units involving participants from both the law enforcement and child or family services components of the partnership that respond to or deal with violent incidents in which a child is involved as a perpetrator, witness, or victim; (2) training for law enforcement officers regarding behavior, psychology, family systems, and community culture and attitudes that is relevant to dealing with children who are involved in violent incidents or at risk or with families of such children; and (3) programs for children and families that are designed jointly by the law enforcement and child or family services components of the partnership, including providing 24-hour response to crisis situations affecting children and programs that provide training in non-violent conflict resolution, after-school activity and neighborhood recreation programs, parent support groups, and mentoring programs.

Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to units of State or local government, public housing authorities, owners of federally assisted housing, and owners of housing in high crime areas to provide dwelling units to law enforcement officers without charge or at substantially reduced rent for the purpose of providing greater security for residents of high crime areas.

(Sec. 303) Sets forth requirements regarding administration, technical assistance, training, and evaluation.

(Sec. 305) Authorizes appropriations.

Title IV: Midnight Sports - Directs the Secretary of HUD to make grants to assist eligible entities in carrying out midnight sports league programs.

Requires each eligible entity receiving a grant to establish a sports league meeting specified requirements, including that: (1) there be not less than eight teams of ten players each, with at least half the players being residents of federally assisted low-income housing; (2) the program be designed to serve primarily youths from a neighborhood or community whose population has not less than two of specified characteristics, such as a substantial problem regarding use or sale of illegal drugs, high incidences of crimes committed by youth, persons infected with sexually transmitted diseases, or pregnancy, and high rates of youth unemployment or of high school drop-outs; (3) each player be required to attend specified counseling, job training, and other educational classes; and (4) the program serve only youths demonstrating a need for such counseling, training, and education, obtain sponsors for each team in the league, and comply with criteria established by the Secretary of HUD.

Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) eligibility (entities eligible under specified provisions of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act and nonprofit organizations providing crime prevention, employment counseling, job training, other educational services or federally-assisted low-income housing); (2) use of grant amounts; (3) grant amount limitations; and (4) application, selection, and reporting requirements.

Directs the Secretary of HUD to: (1) make a grant to one qualified entity to study the effectiveness of midnight sports league programs of entities receiving grants; and (2) require such entity to report to the Congress, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of HUD.

Authorizes appropriations.

Title V: Drug Courts - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to State and local governments and other public and private entities for programs that involve continuing judicial supervision over specified categories of persons with substance abuse problems and that involve the integrated administration of other sanctions and services, including: (1) testing for the use of controlled or other addictive substances; (2) substance abuse treatment; (3) diversion, probation, or other supervised release involving the possibility of prosecution, confinement, or incarceration based on noncompliance with program requirements or failure to show satisfactory progress; and (4) programmatic or health related aftercare services such as relapse prevention, education, vocational training, job placement, housing placement, and child care or other family support services.

(Sec. 502) Sets forth requirements regarding administration, technical assistance, training, and evaluation.

(Sec. 504) Authorizes appropriations.

Title VI: Community Youth Academies - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to carry out demonstration projects to provide prevention and intervention services for delinquent and at-risk youth if such projects provide room and board and include a curriculum that is developed in cooperation with community groups.

(Sec. 602) Authorizes appropriations.

Title VII: Police Recruitment - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to assist qualified community organizations in meeting the costs of qualified programs designed to recruit and retain applicants of police departments.

Specifies that a program is a qualified program if: (1) it is designed to recruit and train applicants to a police department from underrepresented neighborhoods and localities; and (2) it provides recruiting services which include tutorial programs to enable individuals to meet police force academic requirements and to pass entrance examinations, counseling to applicants to police departments who may encounter problems throughout the application process, and retention services to assist in retaining individuals to stay in the application process of a police department.

Sets forth requirements regarding: (1) qualified community organizations; (2) applications; (3) action by the Attorney General; (4) grant disbursement; (5) the grant period; and (6) grantee reporting.

Directs the Attorney General to prescribe guidelines on content and results for programs under this title.

(Sec. 702) Authorization of appropriations.

Title VIII: National Triad Program - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Justice to conduct a national assessment of the: (1) crimes committed against older Americans and the effect on victims; (2) numbers, extent, and impact of violent and nonviolent crimes against older Americans and the extent of unreported crimes; (3) collaborative needs of law enforcement, health, and social service organizations, focusing on prevention of crimes against older Americans, to identify, investigate, and provide assistance to crime victims; and (4) strategies to respond effectively.

(Sec. 804) Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to coalitions of local law enforcement agencies and older Americans to assist in the development of programs and to execute field tests of particularly promising strategies for crime prevention and related services based on the Triad model (which calls for the participation of the sheriff, at least one police chief, and a representative of at least one older Americans' organization within a county and which may include participation by general service coalitions of law enforcement, victim service, and senior citizen advocate second service organizations), which can then be evaluated and serve as the basis for further demonstration and education programs.

Sets forth requirements regarding: (1) applications, distribution of grant awards, and post-grant period reporting; (2) training assistance, evaluation, and dissemination awards (to mount a program of public service announcements to increase awareness and understanding of issues surrounding crimes against older Americans); and (3) reporting requirements.

(Sec. 807) Authorizes appropriations.

Title IX: Local Partnership Act - Local Partnership Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make specified payments to units of local government to carry out programs related to education to prevent crime or substance abuse treatment to prevent crime. Requires that not less than ten percent of the total combined amounts of such payments obligated by a unit for contracts and subcontracts be expended with small business concerns controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and women and colleges and universities which are historically Black and which have a student body in which more than 20 percent of the students are Hispanic Americans or Native Americans, with exceptions.

Authorizes appropriations to a Local Government Fiscal Assistance Fund of the Department of the Treasury.

Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) qualification for payment; (2) allocations to State, local, and territorial governments; (3) income gap multipliers; (4) State variation and adjustments of local government allocations; (5) information used in allocation formulas; and (6) public participation.

Prohibits any person in the United States from being excluded from participating in, denied benefits of, or subject to discrimination under, a program or activity of a unit of general local government receiving a payment pursuant to this title because of race, color, national origin, or sex. Makes specified prohibitions and exemptions (regarding discrimination based on age under the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, discrimination against an otherwise qualified handicapped individual under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and discrimination because of religion under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1968) applicable to such a program or activity. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to try to make agreements with heads of Federal and State agencies to investigate noncompliance with such provisions.

Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) discrimination proceedings; (2) suspension and termination of payments in discrimination proceedings; (3) compliance agreements; (4) enforcement by the Attorney General of prohibitions on discrimination; (5) civil actions by adversely affected persons; (6) judicial review; (7) audits, investigations, and reviews; and (8) reporting requirements.

Title X: Youth Employment and Skills Crime Prevention Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to local governments to fund targeted youth employment and skills development projects to help reduce crime in target areas. (Defines "target areas" of each grant as neighborhoods which are high crime areas with high unemployment among young adults and other serious economic and social programs.)

(Sec. 1004) Specifies that young adults residing or attending school in the target area shall be eligible to participate in programs funded under this title if they are between 16 and 25 years of age (in certain circumstances, between age 14 and 30). Conditions continued participation in such programs on avoiding crime (including illegal drug use), regular attendance and satisfactory performance at work, paying child support when paternity has been established and the participant has an income, in-school young adults in high school remaining in school until graduation, and requiring young adults ages 16-17 who have dropped out of high school and who have not obtained a General Equivalency Diploma to return to school or an alternative education program.

(Sec. 1005) Directs that funds awarded under this title be expended only for crime prevention related activities undertaken to carry out an approved application, such as: (1) apprenticeship programs linking work and learning; (2) on-the-job training in the private sector; (3) youth conservation and service corps; (4) programs emphasizing neighborhood infrastructure, such as YouthBuild and employment of public housing residents; (5) work experience in private nonprofit organizations and public agencies; (6) entrepreneurial and microenterprise development; (7) crime prevention and security measures for businesses employing substantial numbers of youth from high crime areas; (8) transportation links to jobs in the labor market area; (9) initiatives to increase the educational attainment, occupational skills, and career aspirations of target young adults; and (10) job placement and related case management, followup, and other supportive services.

Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) wages, supervision, supplies, private sector job development, and job placement; (2) a two-year limitation on subsidized employment for a participant; (3) application requirements; (4) award priorities; (5) grant duration and number; and (6) evaluation, technical assistance, and administration.

(Sec. 1010) Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 1011) Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to terminate or suspend financial assistance to a recipient or refuse to extend a grant for a recipient who fails to meet requirements of this title.

(Sec. 1012) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) labor standards; (2) issuance of regulations of guidelines; (3) waivers; (4) prohibition of private rights of action; and (5) acceptance of gifts.

Title XI: Miscellaneous - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to permit the award of drug control and system improvement grants to State and local governments for the purpose of participating in multijurisdictional gang task forces.