NCJ Number
199108
Date Published
2001
Length
139 pages
Annotation
This is the 2000 annual report of the California Governor's Office of Criminal Justice Planning (OCJP), which is responsible for providing State and Federal grant funds to local communities to prevent crime and help crime victims, as well as for developing State policies and programs to address issues and needs in the criminal justice field.
Abstract
Additional funding, new programs, and improvements in management marked the year 2000. Additional funding enhanced a budding Rural Crime Prevention Program and expanded the existing High Technology Theft Apprehension and Prosecution Program to five task forces. A new Elder Abuse Vertical Prosecution Program was up and operating, helping local District Attorneys' Offices try those who victimize elder citizens. Each of the 67 domestic violence shelters supported by OCJP was equipped with TDD lines to enable hearing-impaired victims to reach shelter staff. To assist parents and their children who have been abuse victims, funding was provided to support statewide training in parent-child interaction therapy to decrease parental stress and child behavioral problems, as well as to increase a child's self- esteem. Following a 1999 report by the Bureau of State Audits that identified employee accountability issues at OCJP, a new system was put in place in 2000 to ensure that supervisors, or anyone interested in a person's whereabouts, can track employees' activities. The intent is to make staff more accessible to the grantees, clients, and customers they serve. Additional staff were assigned to monitoring, audits, and program evaluation to help ensure that programs being funded are meeting their objectives.