GRANT TO FUND ANTI-GANG ENFORCEMENT.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - A $500,000 state grant will pay for expanding anti-gang law-enforcement efforts and mentoring programs aimed at keeping youngsters out of gangs in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . A continuation of annual grants received for several years by Lancaster, the state Office of Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' funding this year will be used around the Antelope Valley for anti-gang police sweeps as well as for education and gang-prevention programs, officials said. ``It enables us to do some proactive things we may not (otherwise) be able to do, to go after a particular gang or look for people on warrants,'' said Capt. Carl Deeley, the Lancaster sheriff's station commander. More than 60 street gangs have been identified as active in the Antelope Valley and some 3,500 ex-convicts are on parole in the Antelope Valley. sheriff's officials said. Many of the parolees are gang members who continuously recruit youngsters to join gangs, officials said. Every year, more than 400 high school students are identified as belonging to local gangs, sheriff's officials said. The Gang Violence Suppression grant money will be shared, as have past grants, among the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. , the 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 District Attorney's Office and Probation Department, the Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale , and the private youth counseling service United Community Action Network. The Sheriff's Department will get nearly $188,000, of which the majority will go to pay gang-detail detectives and other deputies' overtime for working special anti-gang operations, and the District Attorney's Office will get $165,000 for a local prosecutor to concentrate on hard-core gang cases. The Probation Department will get $68,000, and the high school district and UCAN UCAN Utility Consumers' Action Network (California) UCAN Utah Communications Agency Network UCAN Uhlich Children's Advantage Network UCAN Ultra-wideband Concepts for Ad hoc Networks $64,500. The high school's money will be used to expand a mentoring program called Project LINK at local high schools. Los Angeles County supervisors are scheduled to vote Tuesday on accepting the grant. ``The supervisor has made gang suppression one of his top priorities,'' said Tony Bell, an aide to Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San , whose district includes the Antelope Valley. |
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