1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to public safety; requiring the commissioner 
  1.3             of public safety to develop grant programs to fund law 
  1.4             enforcement and community crime prevention 
  1.5             initiatives; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota 
  1.6             Statutes, chapter 299A. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [299A.62] [LAW ENFORCEMENT AND COMMUNITY 
  1.9   GRANTS.] 
  1.10     Subdivision 1.  [GRANT PROGRAMS.] (a) The commissioner of 
  1.11  public safety may develop grant programs 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 efforts, including but not limited to programs that 
  1.15  assist: 
  1.16     (1) law enforcement agencies in purchasing equipment, 
  1.17  provide undercover buy money, and pay other nonpersonnel costs; 
  1.18     (2) community and neighborhood organizations in efforts to 
  1.19  prevent or reduce criminal activities in their areas, 
  1.20  particularly activities involving youth and the use and sale of 
  1.21  drugs; 
  1.22     (3) law enforcement agencies in efforts to target and 
  1.23  apprehend violent habitual criminals; 
  1.24     (4) in establishing neighborhood block clubs and innovative 
  1.25  community-based crime watch programs; 
  1.26     (5) in establishing community-based programs designed to 
  2.1   intervene with juvenile offenders who are identified as likely 
  2.2   to engage in repeated criminal activity in the future unless 
  2.3   intervention is undertaken; 
  2.4      (6) in establishing other community-based crime prevention 
  2.5   programs that are innovative and encourage substantial 
  2.6   involvement by members of the community served by the program; 
  2.7   and 
  2.8      (7) law enforcement agencies to assign overtime officers to 
  2.9   high crime areas for the purpose of vigorously enforcing curfew, 
  2.10  truancy, and traffic laws, initiating street contacts, checking 
  2.11  for outstanding warrants, generating intelligence information on 
  2.12  suspected drug dealers and gang members, and arresting criminal 
  2.13  law violators.  
  2.14     (b) The commissioner shall prescribe criteria for 
  2.15  eligibility and the award of grants and reporting requirements 
  2.16  for recipients.