Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus has been awarded a Federal Fiscal Year 2020 STOP Violence Against Women Act Subgrant Award from the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women and the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services via the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Office of Justice Policy and Programs. The VAWA program provides funding to allow states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by strengthening services to victims and holding offenders accountable. The total FY20 VAWA subgrant award amount to the City of Columbus is $19,812.79. The Columbus Division of Police (CPD) will provide $6,604.26 as an in kind match. The total project costs will be $26,417.05.
CPD will continue its grant project collaboration with Franklin County Municipal Court, Department of Pretrial and Probation Services and Columbus City Attorney’s Office Domestic Violence Unit to further develop processes to better identify and manage high-risk domestic violence offenders as they move through probation services. The Identifying and Managing High-Risk DV Offenders Project objective is to increase the knowledge level of the justice agencies participating in the group project to ensure the most swift and coordinated community response for victims of domestic violence. To this end, FY20 VAWA subgrant funds will cover city CPD overtime costs for this grant cycle.
The City must act as subgrantee to the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy and Programs. Therefore, the Director of Public Safety is required to sign a subgrantee award on behalf of the City. The official City program contact authorized to act in connection with the Identifying and Managing High-Risk DV Offenders Project is Special Victims Bureau CPD Domestic Violence Unit Sergeant Richard Ketcham.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary to meet grant deadlines and t...
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