Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $30,000 from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund. This grant will support a contract with Dr. Christopher Lowenkamp in providing a pilot domestic violence risk assessment that incorporates statistically significant predictors of recidivism as gleaned from his recent review of the ODARA and DVRNA tools. Over the course of the project period (calendar year 2023), this project would produce the tool, facilitate staff training to implement the tool on a pilot basis on approximately 500 cases, conduct an analysis of the results of the study, prepare a staff training manual for the tool and prepare a final report summarizing the efforts and outcomes.
Emergency Legislation is requested so the grant funds can be used as close to the start date as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT $30,000.00 will be expended from the General Governmental Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services; to appropriate $30,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to provide a pilot domestic violence risk assessment; and to declare an emergency. ($30,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus to provide the Department of Probation and Pretrial Services with the best possible tools to facilitate the domestic violence program; and
WHEREAS, a grant from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services in the amount of $30,000.00 has been awarded; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court, in that it is immediately necessary to accept the aforementioned grant to co...
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