July 25, 2002 The Honorable Board of Supervisors County of Los Angeles 383 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration 500 West Temple Street Los Angeles, California 90012 Dear Supervisors: ACCEPTANCE OF FEDERAL BYRNE BLOCK GRANT FUNDING FROM THE GOVERNOR S OFFICE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLANNING FOR THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY ANTI-DRUG ABUSE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM ALL DISTRICTS (3-Vote) IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOUR BOARD: Adopt the enclosed Resolution required by the State whereby your Board: Accepts Fiscal Year (FY) 2002-03 Federal Byrne Block Grant funding of $7,156,460, an increase of $314,123 over FY 2001-02, allocated to the County of Los Angeles by the Governor s Office of Criminal Justice Planning (OCJP) to continue the countywide Los Angles County Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program. Approves the Los Angeles Countywide Comprehensive Plan (Local Plan) as the basis for the Los Angeles County Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program consisting of nine projects, as adopted by the Los Angeles County Anti-Drug Abuse Committee. Approves the Committee s decision to continue the Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program in FY 2002-03 through 1) four county administered projects, among which the Anti-Drug Abuse/ Re-Entry for Drug Addicts Program (REDAP) selected to replace, at no additional County cost, the project entitled, Anti-Drug Abuse Transitional Housing Intensive Supervision Program (ADA/THISP), which funding expired on June 30, 2002, and 2) five municipally administered projects,
Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 2 among which, the Allied Laboratory Enforcement Team (ALERT), enhanced with a vertical prosecution component under the auspices of the District Attorney. Approves the Committee s apportionment of the FY 2002-03 County allocation of $7,156,460 (100 percent) among the four County administered projects at the FY 2001-02 funding level amounting to $2,415,859 (34 percent), and $4,740,601 (66 percent) among the five municipally administered projects, including the FY 2002-03 increase of $314,123 to augment the enhanced ALERT project. Approves the Operational Agreement which binds the agencies participating in the Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement to implement the Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program countywide collaboratively, as updated and adopted by the Los Angeles County Anti-Drug Abuse Committee. Authorizes the Sheriff, the District Attorney, the Chief Probation Officer, and the Executive Officer-Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, or their designees, to serve as Project Directors of their respective projects, and, to execute on behalf of the County, their respective Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program applications, which, when duly executed by the OCJP Executive Director on behalf of the State, will convert to grant award agreements; attendant documents, amendments, modifications, and augmentations; the Operational Agreement, and Memorandums of Understanding pertaining to any of the Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program s projects. PURPOSE/JUSTIFICATION OF RECOMMENDED ACTION Each year the Governor s Office of Criminal Justice Planning (OCJP) allocates Federal Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Formula Grant Program (Byrne Block Grant) funding to California s 58 counties in support of the Statewide Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program. Countywide steering committees maintain Local Plans as the basis for local anti-drug enforcement programs, select projects,
Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 3 determine their continuation, and apportion the allocations. The allocations are secured from the State by a yearly application/grant award process subject to authorization by resolution from local governing bodies. The Los Angeles County Anti-Drug Abuse Committee (the Committee), formed over a decade ago, consists of representatives from the Los Angeles Superior Court; the District Attorney s Office; the Sheriff s Department; the Probation Department; the Public Defender; the Los Angeles City Attorney; the Los Angeles Interim Police Chief, and all Police Chiefs in the County, represented by the President and two Chiefs selected by the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Police Chiefs' Association; the County Drug Administrator, Department of Health Services; and the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Commission. The Sheriff chairs the Committee. The OCJP published the Los Angeles County s FY 2002-03 allocation of $7,156,460, an increase of $314,123 over prior FY 2001-02, and the application packet on its website on April 3, 2002 (Attachment I). On April 11, 2002, the Committee reviewed the four County administered and five municipally administered projects that comprise the Los Angeles County Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program. A new project was selected to be administered by the Probation Department, entitled Anti-Drug Abuse/Re-Entry For Drug Addicts Program (REDAP), to replace, with no change in personnel or additional program costs, the Anti-Drug Abuse/ Transitional Housing Intensive Supervision Program (ADA/THISP), which four-year funding cycle expired on June 30, 2002. The Committee enhanced the municipally administered Allied Laboratory Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) project with a vertical prosecution component to consist of a Deputy District Attorney III to meet the demand for criminal prosecution of clandestine laboratory offenses and related child endangerment. The Committee decided to continue the Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program with these nine projects, and apportioned the County s FY 2002-03 allocation of $7,156,460 (100 percent) among them. The four County projects were apportioned funding at the prior FY 2001-02 funding levels, at a total of $2,415,859 (34 percent). The five municipally administered projects were apportioned $4,740,601 (66 percent), four at FY 2001-02 funding levels, and one, ALERT, at its FY 2001-02 level augmented further with the FY 2002-03 allocation increase of $314,123, of which $120,000 will offset District Attorney vertical prosecution costs (Attachment II).
Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 4 The Committee, on May 9, 2002, following its actions of April 11, 2002, approved the Local Plan Subcommittee s update of the Los Angeles County Comprehensive Plan (Local Plan) for the Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program. Also, on May 9, 2002, the Committee adopted the Operational Agreement, which commits the participating agencies to their respective projects and the Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program overall. The Operational Agreement, duly executed by the signatories of all the parties participating in the Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program, are submitted with each application to be made integral to the grant award agreements. (Attachment III, A and B). The Sheriff is the single point of contact for the countywide Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program. As such, the Sheriff s Department must submit its application and those of the other participants to the OCJP under one cover, and recommend that your Board, as the County s governing body, by resolution accept the allocation, approve the Committee s actions, authorize implementation of the County administered projects and each of the County applicant agencies to enter, on your Board s behalf, into their respective grant awards agreements with the State. The applications were submitted to the OCJP on June 13, 2002. The Mayor of the City of Los Angeles and the Chief of Police of the City of Hawthorne have requested their City Councils to adopt resolutions pertaining to the municipally administered projects. Implementation of Strategic Plan Goals The Los Angeles County Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program, a multi-jurisdictional approach to combat illicit drugs countywide based on a comprehensive plan, meets the County s Goal 2, Organizational Effectiveness, through this goal s Strategy 3, Collaboration across functional and jurisdictional boundaries. A synopsis of each County and municipally administered project, its apportionment, and funding year appears below.
Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 5 COUNTY ADMINISTERED PROJECT APPLICATIONS (Attachment IV) FY 2002-03 apportionment: $2,415,859 (33.76 percent) Community Oriented Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team (COMNET), a task force implemented by the Sheriff s Department, with collaboration from the District Attorney and Probation Department. The COMNET addresses narcotics related problems in unincorporated areas, contract cities, and other municipalities. FY 2002-03 apportionment: $1,463,812; fifth year of funding (Attachment IV, A). Anti-Drug Abuse/Re-Entry for Drug Addicts Program (REDAP), implemented by the Probation Department, the Department of Health Services, and the Los Angeles Superior Court. The REDAP provides transitional housing, facilitates participation in drug treatment services and enhances community reintegration to drug addicted offenders sentenced to State prison who are granted probation for enrollment in the Los Angeles Superior Court Sentenced Offender Drug Court program. FY 2002-03 apportionment: $262,596; first year of funding (Attachment IV, B). Los Angeles County Drug-testing Enforcement Program (LADEP), implemented by the Countywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee, under the auspices of the Executive Officer of the Board of Supervisors, the Los Angles Superior Court, and the Probation Department. The LADEP enhances supervisory and enforcement provisions of the Los Angeles Drug Court Program in the Los Angeles Superior Court Districts. FY 2002-03 apportionment: $388,385; fourth year of funding (Attachment IV, C). Clearinghouse Electronic Surveillance System (CHESS), implemented by the District Attorney s Office, with the support of the Los Angeles County Regional Criminal Investigation Clearinghouse (LACRCIC, aka: LA Clearinghouse). The CHESS project provides wiretaps screening by the District Attorney, direct access to LA Clearinghouse investigators for review of the wiretap clearance and implementation process, vertical prosecution of cases derived from wiretaps, and training to State and local law enforcement officers on the use and preparation of wiretaps.
FY 2002-03 apportionment: $301,066; second year of funding (Attachment IV, D). Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 6 MUNICIPALLY ADMINISTERED PROJECT APPLICATIONS FY 2002-03 apportionment: $4,740,601 (66.24 percent) The five projects, three of which are components of a single application and, upon conversion into a grant award agreement by the OCJP, a single contract, administered by entities subject to municipal jurisdictions are: Narcotics Enforcement Surveillance Team (NEST), implemented by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles City Attorney, with collaboration from the District Attorney, and cooperation form the Los Angeles Joint Drug Intelligence Group. The NEST operates within the City of Los Angeles where it targets street-level drug offenders in narcotics infested neighborhoods, prosecutes criminal cases, and enforces codes that ensure eviction of drug offenders in rental properties. FY 2002-03 apportionment: $1,875,048; fifth year of funding (Attachment V, A). Los Angeles County Regional Criminal Information Clearinghouse (LACRCIC, aka: LA Clearinghouse) implemented under the auspices of the Los Angeles County Police Chiefs Association (LACPCA), with the City of Hawthorne as the contractual proponent. The LA Clearinghouse is an intelligence gathering entity, linked with State and national networks, that supports all law enforcement agencies in this County in coordinating investigations and targeting drug trafficking organizations. FY 2002-03 apportionment: $1,602,796; twelfth year of funding (Attachment V, B). Allied Laboratory Enforcement Response Team (ALERT); Burbank Airport Narcotics Enforcement Team (BANET), and Criminal Racketeering Asset Forfeiture Taskforce (CRAFT), implemented by the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force (LA IMPACT), under the auspices of its Board of Directors, and LACPCA, with the City of Hawthorne as the contractual proponent. The ALERT, a partnership between the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, LA IMPACT, the Sheriff, and the District Attorney, targets clandestine methamphetamine laboratories for the purpose of clean-up and vertical prosecution. The
BANET is a narcotics trafficking intervention effort at Burbank Airport, and, in partnership with the Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 7 Drug Enforcement Administration, provides operational liaison with other airports in the nation. CRAFT targets money laundering operations linked to narcotics trafficking through a multi-jurisdictional team of State, Federal and local law enforcement agents. FY 2002-03 apportionments: ALERT, $609,525; BANET, $167,753; both eighth year funding; CRAFT, $485,479; fourth year funding. LA IMPACT projects total FY 2002-03 apportionment: $1,262,757 (Attachment V, C). FISCAL IMPACT/FINANCING: The FY 2002-03 State allocated Byrne Block Grant funding of $7,156,460 was apportioned to the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, and the City of Hawthorne to offset the cost of the countywide Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program projects. No match is required. The Sheriff, the District Attorney, the Probation Department, and your Board have included in the FY 2002-03 Departmental Budgets revenues equivalent to their ongoing projects apportionments and municipally administered project participatory costs. The following displays the projects funding. FY 2002-03 Byrne Funding Allocation, State to County: $7,156,460 County Administered Projects: Grantee Project Apportionment SHERIFF COMNET $1,463,812 Component Personnel Services and Supplies Sheriff 1,077,810 16,773 District Attorney 148,915 Probation 220,314
Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 8 COMNET Positions: 13 (100% funded) Sheriff: 10 1 Lieutenant, 1 Sergeant, 6 Deputies (Bonus I Investigators); 1 Operations Assistant III, 1 Sheriff s Station Clerk II Salaries and Employee Benefits: 976,102 Overtime (OT) and Employee Benefits (EB): 101,708 District Attorney: 1 Deputy District Attorney Salaries and Employee Benefits: 148,915 Probation: 2 Deputy Probation Officers (DPO) Salaries and Employee Benefits: 175,047 Overtime and Employee Benefits: 45,267 PROBATION REDAP $262,596 Component Personnel Services and Supplies Probation 193,710 68,886 REDAP Positions: 3 Probation: 1 Supervising DPO (20% funded); 2 DPO IIs (100% funded) BOARD OF SUPERVISORS LADEP $388,385 Component Personnel Services and Supplies Executive Office/CCJCC 329,474* Probation 58,911 Superior Court*( $300,000, included in Services and Supplies) LADEP Positions: 1 (100% funded) Probation: 1 Investigator Aide DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHESS $301,066 Component Personnel Services and Supplies
District Attorney 279,157 21,909 Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 9 CHESS Positions: 3 (100% funded) District Attorney: 3 Deputy District Attorney IIIs SUBTOTAL (County Administered Projects): $2,415,859 Municipally Administered Projects: Grantee Project Apportionment CITY OF LOS ANGELES NEST $1,875,048 Component LAPD 1,057,581 LACA 664,405 District Attorney 153,062 NEST County Positions: 1 (100% funded) District Attorney: 1 Deputy District Attorney IV Hawthorne ALERT BANET CRAFT (ABC) $1,262,757 Components LA IMPACT 1,060,517 (ALERT/BANET/CRAFT) District Attorney 120,000 (ALERT) Sheriff 82,240 (ALERT) County Positions: 4; 1 (DDA, 75% funded); 3* (Sheriff, Part Salary; OT) District Attorney: 1 Deputy District Attorney III: 117,997 (Salary & EB); 2,003 (S & S) Sheriff:
2 Sheriff s Investigators: 40,000 (Salary); 42,240 (OT) (*) 1 Sheriff s Investigator: vacant Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 10 Hawthorne LA Clearinghouse $1,602,796 Components (aka: LACRCIC) LACRCIC, and others 1,500,387 Sheriff 102,409 County Position: 1 (75% funded) 1 Sheriff s Lieutenant: 102,409 (S & EB) SUBTOTAL (Municipally Administered Projects): $4,740,601 SUBTOTAL (County Administered Projects): $2,415,859 Byrne Block Grant Funding Allocation, State to County: $7,156,460 FACTS AND PROVISIONS The Los Angeles County Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program is funded with Federal Byrne Formula Grant Program funds which the Governor s OCJP allocates annually to the County, as authorized by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1998, as amended. The content of this letter was reviewed and approved by the affected County departments. CONTRACTING PROCESS Not applicable. IMPACT ON CURRENT SERVICES (OR PROJECTS)
Enhancement of LA IMPACT s ALERT with a vertical prosecution component should increase prosecution of clandestine laboratory and related child endangerment offenses. Honorable Board of Supervisors July 25, 2002 Page 11 The Public Defender anticipates that the prosecution components of the District Attorney s CHESS project and LA IMPACT s ALERT project may have an impact on operations the extent of which remains to be determined. The Alternate Public Defender has determined that the impact of the Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program as continued, including the enhancement of the ALERT project with a vertical prosecution component, can be managed and absorbed within existing resources (Attachment VI). NEGATIVE DECLARATION/ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORTS: Not applicable. CONCLUSION Instruct the Executive Officer of the Board of Supervisors to return five copies of the Board letter denoting adoption of the recommendations, five copies of the Resolution with original signatures and the County Seal, at the above letterhead address, to the attention of Judi E. Thomas, Acting Assistant Director, Fiscal Administration, at (323) 526-5408. Inquiries concerning the Los Angeles County Anti-Drug Abuse Enforcement Program and the Anti-Drug Abuse Committee may be directed to Irene M. McReynolds, Commander, Detective Division, or in her absence, to Gerrit Harinck, Grants Coordinator, Grants Unit, Fiscal Administration, Administrative Services Division. Commander McReynolds and Mr. Harinck may be reached respectively at (323) 526-5169 and (323) 526-5359. Respectfully submitted,
LEROY D. BACA SHERIFF LDB:MJD:MES:IMM:VCR:PAH:MRM:JET:GH:jmj (Grants Unit, Fiscal Administration) Enclosure Attachments 2: Executive Officer-Clerk of the Board of Supervisors [One (1) disk; twenty-two (22) hardcopies 11 with attachments, including copies for Supervisors; County Counsel; Chief Administrative Officer, and Auditor-Controller] William T. Stonich, Undersheriff Larry L. Waldie, Assistant Sheriff Dennis C. Dahlman, Assistant Sheriff Marvin J. Dixon, Chief, Administrative Services Division (ASD) Michael E. Soderberg, Acting Chief, Detective Division Irene M. McReynolds, Commander, Detective Division Victor C. Rampulla, Assistant Division Director, ASD Patricia A. Hawkins, Director, Fiscal Administration, ASD Michael R. McDermott, Acting Captain, ASD Ronnie M. Williams, Captain, Narcotics Bureau, Detective Division Judi E. Thomas, Acting Assistant Director, Fiscal Administration Gerrit Harinck, Administrative Services Manager I, Grants Unit James A. Bascue, Presiding Judge, Superior Court of Los Angeles County Steve Cooley, District Attorney, Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office Rockard J. Delgadillo, Los Angeles City Attorney, City of Los Angeles Janice Y. Fukai, Alternate Public Defender, Law Offices of the Los Angels County Alternate Public Defender Thomas L. Garthwaite, MD., Director and Chief Medical Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Michael P. Judge, Public Defender, Law Offices of the Los Angeles County Public Defender Larry Lewis, President, Los Angeles County Police Chiefs Association/Chief, Alhambra Police Department Patrick L. Ogawa, County Drug Administrator/Chief, Alcohol and Drug Program Administration, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Martin H. Pomeroy, Interim Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department Richard Shumsky, Chief Probation Officer, Los Angeles County Probation Department
Lawrence T. Gentile, Chairman, Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Commission Ronald Ingels, Chairman, Board of Director, Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Taskforce (LA IMPACT)/Chief, La Verne Police Department Kathleen O Leary Lefferman, Acting Executive Director, Criminal Justice Planning Office, Los Angeles Mayor s Office Peggy Shuttelsworth, Executive Director, Countywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee, Executive Office, Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles Los Angeles County Anti-Drug Abuse Committee File Grants File Chronol. ENCLOSURE RESOLUTION
ATTACHMENT I GOVERNOR S OFFICE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLANNING NOTIFICATIONS MARCH 15, 2002 RE: APPLICATION AND FUNDING ALLOCATION
ATTACHMENT II LOS ANGELES COUNTY ANTI-DRUG ABUSE COMMITTEE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF APRIL 11, 2002 RE: PROJECT CONTINUITY, SELECTION AND APPORTIONMENT OF FUNDS
ATTACHMENT III A. LOCAL PLAN B. OPERATIONAL AGREEMENT
ATTACHMENT IV COUNTY ADMINISTERED PROJECTS A. COMNET B. REDAP C. LADEP D. CHESS
ATTACHMENT IV A. COMNET
ATTACHMENT IV B. REDAP
ATTACHMENT IV C. LADEP
ATTACHMENT IV D. CHESS
ATTACHMENT V NON-COUNTY ADMINISTERED PROJECTS A. NEST B. LACRCIC (AKA: LA CLEARINGHOUSE) C. ALERT/BANET/CRAFT
ATTACHMENT V A. NEST
ATTACHMENT V B. LACRCIC (AKA: LA CLEARINGHOUSE)
ATTACHMENT V C. ALERT/BANET/CRAFT
ATTACHMENT VI IMPACT STATEMENT PUBLIC DEFENDER AND ALTERNATE PUBLIC DEFENDER