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within your previous grant application. (Data may be calculated on a pro-rated basis <br />depending on how long the current or previous year's project has been operating.) <br />Enter your current grant's progress: <br /> <br />NA <br /> <br />Project Summary: <br /> <br />Briefly summarize the entire application, including the project's problem statement, <br />supporting data, goal, target group, activities, and objectives. Be sure that the summary <br />is easy to understand by a person not familiar with your project and that you are <br />confident and comfortable with the information if it were to be released under a public <br />information request. <br />Enter your summary statement for this project: <br /> <br />The problems we hope to address include addressing resources gaps as identified in the <br />Harris County Community Plan (2012-2013) as outlined above, as well as addressing <br />shortages in critical resources related to forensic digital analysis in the Houston area for <br />digital items related to criminal investigations. Acquisition of such equipment will allow <br />us to address such gaps, collaborate and cooperate with other area law enforcement <br />agencies, shorten unacceptable wait times for digital analysis, and assist the district <br />attorney in successful prosecutions. Target groups include assistance and cooperation <br />with area law enforcement agencies, successful investigations and prosecutions to <br />impact suspects to incarcerate them, and providing closure for the many victims of <br />various crimes to include child sexual exploitation, crimes against the elderly, crimes <br />against persons generally, drug trafficking, etc. As repeated from above, this project will <br />allow the La Porte Police Department to acquire forensic digital analysis equipment <br />necessary to examine digital evidence such as texts, photographs, spreadsheets, word <br />documents, etc that are created and utilized by the criminal elements in their <br />commitment of crimes that impact children, the elderly and other innocent elements of <br />our population. Such equipment is necessary in the successful filing of charges on these <br />criminals, and in the prosecution of them. The district attorney has mandated that such <br />analysis of digital evidence will be necessary before any charges can be filed, or <br />indictments handed down. Without such equipment, criminal remain free pending <br />prosecution to carry out further victimizations. Such equipment will also us to shorten <br />critical waiting lists for analysis. There are only two labs in the Houston area and one of <br />those restricts its analysis to child victim cases only. Both have waiting lists that are <br />unacceptable for such critical cases. <br /> <br />Selected Project Activities: <br /> <br />ACTIVITY PERCENTAGE: DESCRIPTION <br />Awarded funds will be utilized to purchase digital analysis <br />equipment to be used in forensic investigations to analyze <br />Investigation 100.00 <br />and retrieve critical digital data and images, to be used in <br />criminal investigations in order to prosecute and <br />А <br />DƩğƓƷ bǒƒĬĻƩ ЋЏВЌЋЉЋ <br /> <br />