03-10-14 Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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and/or sexual) and neglect receive legal advocacy and necessary recovery services. In addition, CJD funding will provide additional legal staff who are specialized in the prosecution of these difficult cases. In addition to the special physical vulnerability of elderly persons, this population is fast becoming a lucrative target for fraud schemes. Many elderly people are unaware of the kind of frauds that target their age group, and most do not know what resources are available to them to help recover from such frauds. Finally, the Houston-Galveston Area Council covers thirteen counties in which on. As for inter-agency cooperation in dealing with crime ahs become increasingly critical. However, such cooperation calls for a degree of sophistication and coordination that far ability of these agencies to maximize the efficiency and utility of existing resources". A financial award to address our application will allow our agency to participate in addressing these identified needs as quoted from the Harris County Community Plan. Our acquisition of forensic digital analysis equipment, as staffed with personnel that we already have within our agency, will fill in the gaps in resources identified in the community plan, allow us to strengthen evidence in criminal investigations, provide stronger evidence in successful criminal prosecutions, stop repeated exploitation of potential victims, and address repeat and non-repetitive offenders in the victimization of children and adults. It would also enable us to share these critical resources with our law enforcement partners in the Houston Metropolitan area, shortening critical wait times for forensic examination of digital evidence. Goal Statement: Provide a brief description of the overall goals and objectives for this project. Enter a description for the overall goals and objectives: We desire to attain forensic digital analysis equipment to address critical criminal investigation related to child abuse, child pornography, drug trafficking, serious crimes against persons, and other serious criminal offenses. The acquisition of such equipment is critically needed to address identified gaps in our community plan (Harris County: 2012-2013), and to positively impact unacceptable wait times for such analysis of digital evidence. We are ready to commit to the sharing of such resources to impact our metropolitan area, as well, in order to ensure a wider impact from such a financial award. Our program will ensure that violent criminal predators are convicted and that victims, to include the elderly and children, are not victimized further. Cooperative Working Agreement (CWA): NA Continuation Projects: For continuation projects only, if your current or previous year's project is NOT on schedule in accomplishing the stated objectives, briefly describe the major obstacles preventing your organization from successfully reaching the project objectives as stated Џ DƩğƓƷ bǒƒĬĻƩ ЋЏВЌЋЉЋ