ANTI-GANG TEAM GETS GRANT TO KEEP GOING.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
Starting its fourth year, the team joins deputies with a county probation officer probation officer n. 1. An official usually attached to a juvenile court and charged with the care of juvenile delinquents. 2. An official charged with supervising convicts at large on suspended sentence or probation. and a prosecutor who concentrate on gang crimes, particularly violent ones. ``This is the first year of what we expect to be a three-year funding cycle,'' said Lt. Steve Fredericks. ``If the funding is still available and we comply with the grant guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. , we should be able to renew it for the next two years.'' The anti-gang team was created three years ago with a grant that provided about $300,000 per year from the California Governor's Office of Criminal Justice Planning. The team is comprised of four daytime gang investigators and two nighttime investigators, a probation officer, a sergeant and a deputy district attorney assigned specifically to handle hard-core gang cases. In the first two years after the team was formed, its members made more than 1,000 arrests with 90 percent of those being convicted. The team's funding expires June 30 and the new grant is supposed to be available July 1. Even though the terms of the grant do not require matching funds Noun 1. matching funds - funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money , the city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. has promised a 10 percent match, about $50,000. Officials of the anti-gang program said the city has been very supportive of the team because of its success. ``Over the past three years working under the grant, we have seen a decrease in gang-involved criminal activity and an increase in gang member prosecution,'' Fredericks said. ``The city is doing everything they can to ensure the safety of their citizens by supporting the grant with their matching funds and contracting the services of the unit.'' The Lancaster sheriff's station has two other units that target gang crime: the Operation Safe Streets team and the Gang Enforcement team, both funded by grants through Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County. Fredericks said the teams complement each other in their anti-gang efforts in Lancaster. ``(The GET team) is a much-appreciated extra resource that complements the GVS (Global VideoPhone Standard) The technology behind AT&T's VideoPhones. GVS transmits at 10 frames per second, a third the rate of regular TV. The GVS technology is licensed to other manufacturers. detail in our gang suppression efforts,'' Fredericks said. |
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