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Public Safety

Sheriff's Office - COPS Hiring Recovery Program – Awarded $3.4M

The COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP) is a competitive grant program designed to address the full-time sworn officer needs of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies nationwide. CHRP provides funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire new and/or rehire career law enforcement officers in an effort to create and preserve jobs, and to increase their community policing capacity and crime-prevention efforts. Up to $1 billion in grant funding was appropriated of this initiative through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Contact: Connie Bernard (513) 946-6407

Juvenile Court – Mental Health Collaboration Program – Awarded $200,000

The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program seeks to increase public safety through an innovative, cross-system, collaborative response to individuals with mental illness who come in contact with the criminal or juvenile justice systems. The program is designed to increase public safety by facilitating collaboration among the criminal justice, juvenile justice, and mental health and substance abuse treatments systems to increase access to services for offenders with mental illness.

Juvenile Court – Edward Byrne Memorial Grant Program: Providing for Funding of Neighborhood Probation and Parole Officers – awarded $596,366

The Recovery Act Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Program will help communities improve the capacity of state and local justice systems and provide for national support efforts including training and technical assistance programs strategically targeted to address local needs. Hamilton County, through the county juvenile court, will use the grant award to establish a probation reentry program for juvenile offenders. This project will retain two probation officers and create a third probation officer position to provide enhanced probation services to 250 felony adjudicated youth.

Multiple Departments - Edward Bryne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant - $1,283,353

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program is the primary provider of federal criminal justice funding to state and local jurisdictions. JAG funds support all components of the criminal justice system, from multijurisdictional drug and gang task forces to crime prevention and domestic violence programs, courts, corrections, treatment, and justice information sharing initiatives. JAG funded projects may address crime through the provision of services directly to individuals and/or communities and by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of criminal justice systems, processes, and procedures.

The city and the county split the grant award 50/50.  The county funding will be allocated as followed:

Purpose	Departments	Funding	Contacts
Jail Intake Assessment	Sheriff Pretrial Services	$600,000	Connie Bernard (513) 946-6407 Wendy Niehaus (513) 946-6165
Electronic Monitoring Expansion	Sheriff	$584,353	Connie Bernard (513) 946-6407
Scientific Work Station (Firearm Analysis)	Coroner	$50,000	Andrea Hatten (513) 946-8714
Create Web-Based System for Judicial Inmate Inquiry	Sheriff Pretrial Services	$49,000	Wendy Niehaus (513) 946-6165