1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to crime prevention; authorizing the board of 
  1.3             government innovation and cooperation to award grants 
  1.4             for cooperative crime prevention programs; 
  1.5             establishing an advisory committee; proposing coding 
  1.6             for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 465. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [PURPOSE.] 
  1.9      The purpose of the grant program established by Minnesota 
  1.10  Statutes, section 465.89, is to: 
  1.11     (1) empower local citizens and law enforcement agencies to 
  1.12  develop and implement multifaceted and localized public safety 
  1.13  strategies; and 
  1.14     (2) design all or part of a small but comprehensive 
  1.15  localized criminal justice system, including community policing, 
  1.16  community prosecution, community courts, community sentencing, 
  1.17  and community victim impact programs. 
  1.18  The objective of a community-based approach is to target and 
  1.19  enhance local criminal justice resources to ensure that an 
  1.20  offender's actions lead to swift consequences for the offender 
  1.21  and to provide continuity in supervision of an offender from 
  1.22  pretrial stages through sentencing, incarceration, probation, 
  1.23  and the response to any subsequent offense. 
  1.24     Sec. 2.  [465.89] [COOPERATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE GRANTS.] 
  1.25     Subdivision 1.  [ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS; PROCEDURES.] (a) Two 
  1.26  or more local units of government, two or more local law 
  2.1   enforcement agencies, or at least one local unit of government 
  2.2   in cooperation with at least one business, neighborhood or 
  2.3   business association, school-based organization, or combination 
  2.4   of those entities may apply to the board of government 
  2.5   innovation and cooperation for a grant to develop an innovative, 
  2.6   cooperative crime prevention project.  The application must 
  2.7   state what other sources of funding have been considered by the 
  2.8   applicants to implement the project and explain why it is not 
  2.9   possible to complete the project without assistance from the 
  2.10  board.  The board may not award a grant if it determines that 
  2.11  the applicants could complete the project without board 
  2.12  assistance.  The applicants shall submit a copy of the 
  2.13  application to the exclusive representatives certified under 
  2.14  section 179A.12 to represent employees who provide any service 
  2.15  or program that might be affected by the application. 
  2.16     (b) The application must include plans to implement the 
  2.17  proposed project fully.  A copy of the work product for which 
  2.18  the grant was provided must be provided to the board upon 
  2.19  completion of the implementation, and the board may disseminate 
  2.20  it to other local units of government or interested groups.  If 
  2.21  the board finds that a grantee has failed to implement a project 
  2.22  according to the terms of the agreement awarding the grant, it 
  2.23  may require the grantee to repay all or a portion of the grant.  
  2.24  The amount of a grant under this section may not exceed $50,000. 
  2.25     Subd. 2.  [CONTENTS; PURPOSES.] (a) An application under 
  2.26  this section must have as its purpose, and specifically address, 
  2.27  the following goals: 
  2.28     (1) to make the community safe; 
  2.29     (2) to sanction offenders with productive punishment and to 
  2.30  hold them responsible to the victim and the community; 
  2.31     (3) to solve crime-related community problems in a 
  2.32  proactive manner; 
  2.33     (4) to involve victims actively in guiding the activities 
  2.34  of anticrime systems in terms of selecting specific projects; 
  2.35     (5) to prepare offenders for safe release and positive 
  2.36  involvement in the community through education, job training, 
  3.1   and other appropriate treatment; and 
  3.2      (6) to encourage the active involvement of community 
  3.3   partners, such as schools, businesses, and organizations. 
  3.4      (b) To be eligible for a grant under this section, a 
  3.5   proposed project must be comprehensive, involving at least three 
  3.6   of the following five criminal justice areas: 
  3.7      (1) community policing; 
  3.8      (2) community prosecution; 
  3.9      (3) community courts; 
  3.10     (4) community corrections; and 
  3.11     (5) community victim impact initiatives. 
  3.12     Subd. 3.  [REVIEW PROCESS.] Before being considered by the 
  3.13  board, applications submitted under this section must be 
  3.14  reviewed by the advisory committee established under section 
  3.15  465.90.  Both the board and the advisory committee shall 
  3.16  consider the extent to which the application involves 
  3.17  cooperative efforts and meets the criteria in subdivision 2.  
  3.18  The board and the advisory committee shall also use the scoring 
  3.19  system in section 465.802 to the extent that it is applicable.  
  3.20  The advisory committee shall determine which projects meet 
  3.21  minimal eligibility standards, rank them in order, and submit 
  3.22  its recommendations to the board.  The board shall select 
  3.23  grantees from the list submitted by the advisory committee. 
  3.24     Sec. 2.  [465.90] [ADVISORY COMMITTEE.] 
  3.25     The advisory committee on cooperative community crime 
  3.26  prevention program applications consists of the following 
  3.27  members appointed by the board: 
  3.28     (1) two county attorneys, one from a county within the 
  3.29  metropolitan area as defined in section 473.121, subdivision 2, 
  3.30  and one from a county outside the metropolitan area; 
  3.31     (2) two representatives of law enforcement agencies, one 
  3.32  from an agency within the metropolitan area and one from an 
  3.33  agency outside the metropolitan area; 
  3.34     (3) two representatives of nonprofit community-based 
  3.35  entities concerned with victim advocacy, one from an entity 
  3.36  operating within the metropolitan area and the other from an 
  4.1   entity operating outside the metropolitan area; and 
  4.2      (4) two representatives of corrections programs or 
  4.3   institutions, one operating within the metropolitan area and the 
  4.4   other operating outside the metropolitan area. 
  4.5      Committee members are entitled to reimbursement of expenses 
  4.6   in the same manner and amount as provided in the commissioner's 
  4.7   plan under section 43A.18, subdivision 2, unless the expenses 
  4.8   are reimbursed by another source. 
  4.9      Sec. 3.  [EXAMPLES.] 
  4.10     (a) This section provides examples of programs that would 
  4.11  meet the requirements for community policing, community 
  4.12  prosecution, community courts, community corrections, and 
  4.13  community victim impact initiatives, required by Minnesota 
  4.14  Statutes, section 465.89, subdivision 2.  The examples are 
  4.15  illustrative only and do not limit the scope of projects that 
  4.16  might meet the requirements of the subdivision. 
  4.17     (b) Community policing could include the control of parks 
  4.18  and schools by visible presence of police officers, the presence 
  4.19  of probation officers in police patrol cars to identify 
  4.20  probationers and facilitate quick apprehension of probationers 
  4.21  violating the probation or supervised release terms, or 
  4.22  antitruency units charged with picking up truants and returning 
  4.23  them to school. 
  4.24     (c) Community prosecution could include neighborhood 
  4.25  prosecutors working with citizens and police to find ways to 
  4.26  control threats to neighborhood public safety and to suggest 
  4.27  legal measures to combat neighborhood nuisances such as problem 
  4.28  properties. 
  4.29     (d) Community courts could include localized courts staffed 
  4.30  with judges familiar with the neighborhood and its concerns and 
  4.31  able to recognize repeat offenders or specialized courts such as 
  4.32  teen courts or night courts to provide immediate responses to 
  4.33  night offenses. 
  4.34     (e) Community corrections could involve locally supervised 
  4.35  restitution programs, including full restitution to victims, or 
  4.36  sentencing to neighborhood community service activities. 
  5.1      (f) Community victim impact initiatives could include 
  5.2   locally based victim-offender mediation programs or ongoing 
  5.3   participation of victims in all phases of dealing with 
  5.4   offenders, from investigation through prosecution and punishment.