Justice

Recipient: Bayfield County
Amount Requested: $22,500
Location: Bayfield County

Description: This project will allow Bayfield County Sherriff’s Office to install video recording units in five Bayfield County Squad cars.  These cameras will help law enforcement prosecute existing offenses and facilitate crime prevention.  Video evidence will increase criminal conviction rates, which allows criminal justice professionals to devote more time and resources to preventing crime.

Recipient: Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha
Amount Requested: $150,000
Location: Kenosha

Description: This project would enable the Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha to expand its Gang Prevention Department to meet the increasing demand for specialized gang prevention outreach in schools and the community. The Club works to enrich the lives of boys and girls and strives to ensure that its community’s disadvantaged youth have greater access to programs and services that will improve their lives.  The Gang Prevention Department uses the evidence-based strategies of the Comprehensive Gang Model developed through the U.S. Department of Justice to target the youth most at risk of becoming involved in gangs and delinquent activity.

Recipient: City of Madison
Amount Requested: $950,000
Location: Madison and Dane County

Description: The City of Madison will be able to complete two technology projects that will expand current technology infrastructure and facilitate crime prevention: (1) Regional Records Management System (RMS Project) to purchase equipment, software and technical services to continue the current collaboration between the Madison Police Department and 14 Dane County Police Departments to consolidate records and manage information effectively, and (2) Dane County Sheriff’s Office/Madison Police Collaborative Forensics Project to purchase equipment and software, storage servers, technical assistance and training in order to continue the  development of a regional digital forensic processing and records management system which will enable law enforcement and other governmental agencies to process and store digital information and evidence in a timely manner, and train regional law enforcement forensic staff.  This funding will further enhance and upgrade information and communication systems infrastructure, and enable the Police Department to continue collaboration with area law enforcement.

Recipient: Milwaukee Police Department
Amount Requested:  $500,000
Location: Milwaukee

Description:  The Milwaukee Police Department seeks technology enhancements that will allow them to increase productivity and modernize administrative functions ultimately getting more officers out on patrol and in the community.  Funds for fingerprint stations, which are critical to the daily operations of the department, will replace two obsolete technologies.  Additionally, the department will replace antiquated paper based personnel record systems.

Recipient: Milwaukee Public Schools
Amount Requested: $508,100
Location: Milwaukee

Description: Administered by the Division of Community Recreation for Milwaukee Public Schools, Summer Stars collaborates with local law enforcement to operate eight-week recreational and educational summer sessions and the Prime Time school-year program for at-risk teens ages 13 to 17. Summer Stars promotes positive life choices and social development with counseling, guidance for drug/alcohol issues, and vocational planning.  This program works to help teens find positive ways to spend their discretionary time and strives to reduce juvenile crime rates.  The success of the program is demonstrated by annual reductions in youth related offensives, as reported by the Milwaukee Police Department.

Recipient: Oneida County
Amount Requested: $700,000
Location: Oneida County

Description: Oneida County has been active in working to comply with the federal strategy to make interoperable public communications a reality in Oneida County.  Interoperability is necessary to ensure coordinated, efficient, and effective emergency response.  This project will contribute to that goal by providing radio equipment, software, and mobile data improvements to computers.  The radio interoperability between local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement and public safety fire and EMS partners will result in enhanced protection of Oneida County communities.
 
Recipient: City of Racine
Amount Requested: $130,470
Location: Racine

Description: This project will provide the City of Racine with four Automatic License Plate Recognition cameras on police patrol cars.  The system will capture digital images of virtually every license plate within view of the patrol car, either moving or stationary.  The license plates are then instantaneously compared to a variety of databases.  The officer operating the system is immediately notified of any irregularities and may then take appropriate actions.  These cameras will reduce the amount of time officers spend investigating crimes so that they can spend more time patrolling Racine streets and neighborhoods.  In addition to benefiting the City of Racine, the Racine Police Department regularly participates in multi-jurisdictional law and traffic enforcement projects, so those jurisdictions will benefit from the use of this equipment as well.

Recipient:  Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Location: Statewide

Description:  This Office of Justice Assistance project will create intensive early intervention programs to cut truancy by 10% in four Wisconsin school districts with the largest number of truant students.  The program will focus on middle school-aged students with whom early intervention programming will have the most success.  Funds will be used to hire staff, evaluate the unique causes of truant behavior in each school and develop programs specifically tailored to the needs of the students, school and community using evidence-based principles and best practices.

Recipient: Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Location: Statewide

Description: This Office of Justice Assistance project would provide competitive grants to fund staffing for local Community Justice Councils which support community-based crime and corrections solutions.  Twenty-nine Community Justice Councils (CJCs) have been formed in Wisconsin to address rising crime rates and corrections budgets with comprehensive solutions that account for the unique geographic, social and economic characteristics of individual communities.  The CJCs are comprised of local justice and community stakeholders, including judges, prosecutors, defense bar, law enforcement, human services and victim advocates.  CJC-supported programs include problem oriented courts – like truancy or drug courts, restorative justice programs and treatment alternatives to incarceration.  Because most CJCs do not have full time staff, funding will be used to hire program directors and staff for CJCs to oversee and implement community based solutions to local crime and corrections issues.

Science

Recipient: Marshall Space Flight Center (Project Proposed by KT Engineering)
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Location:  Huntsville, Alabama

Description: KT Engineering is developing a reliable, low cost family of launch vehicles providing a unique solution for space access which meets the needs of the government (NASA, DoD) and commercial payload sector. In 2006 a new prototype rocket tank production facility was established in New Lisbon, WI to manufacture the propellant fuel tanks for the KT Engineering Radically Segmented Launch Vehicle (RSLV) family. This project would maintain the schedule for a planned first launch date of the RSLV in calendar year 2012. Tank development and engine integration will occur in the New Lisbon, WI prototype tank manufacturing facility. Local estimates by economic development groups and vendors estimate the number of skilled jobs created during full production to be greater than 200. Prototype propellant tanks will be manufactured and tested in Wisconsin. The RSLV Wisconsin activity helps to train, grow and retain critical manufacturing skills and brings a new excitement of high tech space related activities to an area that is embracing the future of our Nation’s space exploration initiatives. *This request was amended on June 19, 2009 to reflect that this is a competitively awarded grant administered by the Marshall Space Flight Center.