JCSO awarded grant funding
From our weekly issue dated October 07, 2009
Four additional officers will be added to Josephine County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO), as a result of $689,000 coming from the federal Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Grant Program.
Sue Watkins, JCSO business manager, announced the competitive grant awards in a Wednesday, Sept. 23 e-mail to county officials.
Watkins wrote that JCSO was awarded two of the three grants for which it applied. One is a two-year, $286,000 grant to hire a crime analyst, and a dispatcher.
JCSO was the only agency in Oregon to receive that grant, Watkins wrote.
JCSO will also receive a $403,000 grant to fund a corrections deputy with drug-and-alcohol counseling duties, and a corrections analyst, according to Watkins.
Only three other agencies in the state received that particular grant, Watkins wrote: the city of Toledo, Columbia County, and the Oregon Dept. of Justice.
JCSO did not receive a grant for a volunteer-and-training coordinator, Watkins wrote. And it still is waiting to hear whether it will receive funds from the second round of U.S. Dept. of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services grants.
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