1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to crime prevention; specifying eligibility 
  1.3             for community-based crime prevention grants; amending 
  1.4             Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 119A.31, subdivision 
  1.5             1. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 119A.31, 
  1.8   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [PROGRAMS.] The commissioner shall, in 
  1.10  consultation with the chemical abuse and violence prevention 
  1.11  council, administer a grant program to fund community-based 
  1.12  programs that are designed to enhance the community's sense of 
  1.13  personal security and to assist the community in its crime 
  1.14  control and prevention efforts.  Examples of qualifying programs 
  1.15  include, but are not limited to, the following: 
  1.16     (1) community-based programs designed to provide services 
  1.17  for children aged 8 to 13 who are juvenile offenders or who are 
  1.18  at risk of becoming juvenile offenders.  The programs must give 
  1.19  priority to: 
  1.20     (i) juvenile restitution; 
  1.21     (ii) prearrest or pretrial diversion, including through 
  1.22  mediation; 
  1.23     (iii) probation innovation; 
  1.24     (iv) teen courts, community service; or 
  1.25     (v) post incarceration alternatives to assist youth in 
  2.1   returning to their communities; 
  2.2      (2) community-based programs designed to provide at-risk 
  2.3   children and youth aged 8 to 13 with after-school and summer 
  2.4   enrichment activities; 
  2.5      (3) community-based programs designed to discourage young 
  2.6   people from involvement in unlawful drug or street gang 
  2.7   activities, such as neighborhood youth centers; 
  2.8      (4) community-based programs designed to conduct research 
  2.9   on street gang culture and, based on this research, develop 
  2.10  effective prevention and intervention techniques to help youth 
  2.11  avoid or end their street gang involvement; 
  2.12     (5) neighborhood block clubs and innovative community-based 
  2.13  crime prevention programs; 
  2.14     ~~(5)~~ (6) community- and school-based programs designed to 
  2.15  enrich the educational, cultural, or recreational opportunities 
  2.16  of at-risk children and youth, including programs designed to 
  2.17  keep at-risk youth from dropping out of school and encourage 
  2.18  school dropouts to return to school; 
  2.19     ~~(6)~~ (7) community-based programs designed to intervene with 
  2.20  juvenile offenders who are identified as likely to engage in 
  2.21  repeated criminal activity in the future unless intervention is 
  2.22  undertaken; 
  2.23     ~~(7)~~ (8) community-based collaboratives that coordinate 
  2.24  multiple programs and funding sources to address the needs of 
  2.25  at-risk children and youth, including, but not limited to, 
  2.26  collaboratives that address the continuum of services for 
  2.27  juvenile offenders and those who are at risk of becoming 
  2.28  juvenile offenders; 
  2.29     ~~(8)~~ (9) programs that are proven successful at increasing 
  2.30  the rate of school success or the rate of post-secondary 
  2.31  education attendance for high-risk students; 
  2.32     ~~(9)~~ (10) community-based programs that provide services to 
  2.33  homeless youth; 
  2.34     ~~(10)~~ (11) programs designed to reduce truancy; and 
  2.35     ~~(11)~~ (12) other community- and school-based crime 
  2.36  prevention programs that are innovative and encourage 
  3.1   substantial involvement by members of the community served by 
  3.2   the program.