Public Safety Stimulus Projects
Potential projects
This section will be updated as projects are identified.
County Commission Approved for Application
Sedgwick County Corrections
- Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant:
$1,614,777 to create and preserve jobs through implementation of a team of
officers that will focus on supervising and providing services to identified
gang members and high-risk clients. Monies will also be used to promote
economic recovery by maintaining and increasing the percent of time spent
delivering cognitive behavioral classes, establishing and maintaining
collaborative partnerships to avoid reduction in services and/or duplication
in services to identified gang members and high risk clients. Also included
in the proposal is to develop a database that incorporates several criminal
justice databases into one database for multi-agency use. Finally the monies
will be used to help enhance or implement initiatives to reduce the
incidence of violent crime.
The addition of officers will allow for more community involvement and collaboration with communities, police and parole concerning clients who are gang members. Additionally, increased and strengthened collaboration will result with the creation of databases for multi-agency use. The expansion of efforts already in place will enhance services delivered and increase public safety – Adult Field Services has seen an increase of 29% in successful probation completers since the introduction of the risk reduction efforts in place.
The grant will create 11 new positions, a team of seven adult gang supervision officers and four (two at both the adult and juvenile programs) ISOs to deliver and increase cognitive programming to targeted gang members.
Time period in which spending will occur: July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2011
Sedgwick County Fire District #1
- Homeland Security Grant: The application for a fire grant to construct, modify and update fire
stations as been submitted. The grant is designed to provide needed
service in fast-growing area of the county and reduce response times for
medical response and fires. It is a key component to the SCFD relocation
program to enhance service and maintain/improve ISO ratings.
Construct Station 35: $1.4 million - Construction will employ as many as 40 individuals.
Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department
- 2009 Buffer Zone Grant: $192,500 to Sheriff’s Office for critical
infrastructure protection.
- Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant
Program: $1,053,213 The monies will be used to address personnel
needs to support the addition of a mental housing unit in the Sedgwick
County Sheriff’s Office Detention Facility. This housing unit will be
designed to house individuals with mental health issues. This focus of
adding six additional detention deputies is to properly staff this unit with
two deputies per shift, three shifts a day. The funding will support salary
and benefits of each individual from the 1st day they are hired.
The targeted population benefiting from this effort is individuals housed in the detention facility with mental health issues. Once they are identified, they would be housed in a housing unit where there would be mental health care available to them 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The deputies would be there to provide the proper security needed for not only the inmates but the mental health personnel assigned to the unit.
The grant will create six new detention deputy positions.
Time period in which spending will occur: July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2011.
- Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant:
$127,039 to address personnel needs, equipment, technology, and training to
fulfill an unmet need and create a crime analyst position. The crime analyst
will assist deputies and detectives in detecting, preventing and responding
to criminal activities as well as develop processes and databases which will
better collect, retrieve and disseminate critical information to improve
workflow and further improve law enforcement processes and activity.
The crime analyst will help increase the ability of the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office to analyze crime and other incidents that lead to the victimization of people in Sedgwick County. He/She will also produce reports of crime statistics for law enforcement professionals and citizens, and will create an online interface that provides up to date crime statistics and occurrences.
The grant will create one new crime analyst position
Time period in which spending will occur: August 1, 2009 to July 31, 2011
Federal Awards and Status
Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office
- 2009 Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Grant: $557,551 for
continued support of the ICAC unit and adding of one additional
FTE/Detective. The targeted population benefiting from this effort is
children, both identified and unidentified, who are victims of exploitation
via the Internet or electronic means. The larger population benefiting from
this program is the 2.8 million residents of Kansas and the 472,000
residents of Sedgwick County.
The monies will be used to address personnel need, equipment, technology, and training that support the protection of children from exploitation via the use of the Internet or other electronic means. The focus of this project will be the addition of a dedicated detective to support the efforts of the Kansas ICAC. The funding will support salary, fringe benefits, equipment, training and technology which will enhance existing efforts in the identification, apprehension, and prosecution of child sexual predators.
The grant will create one new position, a sheriff detective/investigator for a four-year term.
Time period in which spending will occur: April 2009 to March 2013
- Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant
(JAG) Formula Program: $2,360,573
The monies will be used to provide additional personnel, equipment, supplies, and technology to fulfill many unmet needs of four local jurisdictions, City of Wichita, City of Derby, City of Haysville and Sedgwick County. The goals and strategies for this project include the addition of 6.5 FTE Community Corrections residential staff for one year, replacement of outdated equipment including; Courthouse Security X-ray machine, portable radios, patrol rifles, radar units, tasers, SWAT vests and mission critical printers and copiers for the District Attorney’s Office. New or upgraded equipment items include; security cameras for Courthouse Security, digital x-ray and UV cameras for forensic lab use, led light bars for patrol cars and Spider console for support staff.
Sedgwick County Personnel: $217,860
Benefits: $82,043
Supplies: $167,270
Equipment: $647,381
Consultant/Contracts: $35,300
City of Wichita Equipment: $329,777
Supplies: $785,077
Other: $35,000
City of Derby Equipment: $5,000
Supplies: $21,185
City of Haysville Supplies: $21,150
City of Park City Equipment: $13,395
The communities and law enforcement agencies will both benefits from this grant. The monies from this grant will create a better environment for the law enforcement agencies and related justice system programs within their communities. It will also enhance the law enforcement and criminal justice agencies abilities to respond to the needs of their communities.
The grant will create six new full-time positions and one part-time position, community corrections residential staff.
Time period in which spending will occur: October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2012
- Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant:
The
Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority will be replacing state funding of the
local Juvenile Graduated Sanctions Program with these funds in the amount of
$500,000 for state fiscal year 2010. These funds will cover the costs of 13
staff members in the Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center for approximately
12 months. The funding will allow Sedgwick County Corrections to keep these
existing positions filled.
- Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant:
$1,500,000 to fund 36 intensive supervision officers in the Adult Intensive
Supervision Program for approximately 12 months. The funding will allow
Sedgwick County Corrections to keep these existing positions filled.
- Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance (JAG) Grant: $93,126 to
retain two existing intensive supervision officers in the
Adult Intensive Supervision Program (AISP) at the Department of Corrections
for one year.
Sedgwick County began receiving KDOC funding for local adult community
corrections programming in 1983. In fiscal year 2010, there will be a six percent
reduction in AISP funding. The Kansas Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
is receiving applicants for the Federal Recovery Act Edward Byrne Memorial
Justice Assistance grant to enable counties to mitigate the reduction
impacts.
- Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant:
$99,243 for salary and benefits for an additional forensic scientist for 18
months. The forensic scientist will be responsible solely for postmortem
toxicology work, which will reduce case backlog and bring caseloads and
turnaround times back in compliance with NAME guidelines.
The addition of a forensic scientist will help alleviate the burden on existing staff to complete toxicology analyses in a timely and accurate manner. This in turn will allow the RFSC to provide strong supporting evidence to inform law enforcement investigations and criminal prosecutions, as well as to help avoid error that could lead to imperfect justice.
The grant will create one new position, Forensic Scientist I.
Time period in which spending will occur: July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2010