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SF 1758 Senate Long Description

Creating the department of crime victims and violence prevention to merge crime victims services and violence prevention programs into one department in the executive branch under the administrative control of a commissioner to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, specifying certain duties of the commissioner including the establishment of a criminal gang prevention and intervention grant program and account; transferring certain responsibilities of the departments of corrections, public safety, human services, children, families and learning, health and economic security and of the office of drug policy and violence prevention, the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) and the supreme court to the department; providing for the salary of the commissioner; adding the commissioner to the membership of the child abuse prevention and drug abuse resistance education (DARE) advisory and chemical abuse and violence prevention councils and providing for appointment of an abused child program manager; modifying certain membership representation requirements and duties of the abused children program advisory council; expanding or specifying certain conflict of interest prohibitions; providing for a director of the office of drug policy and violence prevention; changing the due date for the annual home visiting program evaluation report; authorizing county sheriffs or chief administrative officers of municipal police departments to apply for undercover buy fund grants and providing for the confidentiality of applications for the grants; granting the criminal gang strike force certain property seizure authority and providing for distribution of money or proceeds from sales of the property by the criminal gang oversight council; modifying the definition of victim; requiring domestic abuse prosecution plans to be kept on file with the department and requiring the commissioner of crime victims and violence prevention in consultation with the battered women advisory council to evaluate the effectiveness of the prosecution plan pilot program; requiring involvement of the commissioner in the adoption of standards governing electronic monitoring devices used to protect victims of domestic abuse; requiring the commissioner to consider recommendations of the appropriate advisory council before awarding grants or adopting policies or procedures relating to programs and services for victims and specifying certain duties of grantees; requiring and providing for the commissioner in consultation with the sexual assault and general crime victims advisory councils to award grants to programs providing direct advocacy, support services, community education, professional training and systems change activities for crime victims; modifying certain sexual assault, battered women and general crime victims advisory council membership representation requirements and duties and providing for program managers; specifying certain membership representation requirements of the crime victims reparations board and the crime victim and witness advisory council, modifying certain duties of the council and requiring commissioner appointment of board and council program managers; transferring the responsibility for operation of the crime victim services telephone line from the commissioner of public safety to the office of the crime victim ombudsman; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statues; appropriating money to the commissioner of crime victims and violence prevention for department administration purposes; repealing certain abused child and battered women programs and victims services provisions, the crime victim crisis center and the crime victim services roundtable (rla)