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Collaborative Justice | Recommended Allocations of Fiscal Year 2019-20 Substance Abuse Focus Grants (Action Required)
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Summary
Summary
As part of the Budget Act of 2019 (Stats. 2019, ch. 23), the Legislature allocated a total of $1.16 million for California collaborative and drug court projects to maintain, expand, or enhance collaborative courts. The Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee recommends that the Judicial Council continue to use this annual allocation to fund court programs through the noncompetitive Collaborative Justice Courts Substance Abuse Focus Grant Program. Additionally, $75,000 in federal Court Improvement Program funds have been made available for fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 to fund the noncompetitive Dependency Drug Court Augmentation to the focus grant program. The committee recommends funding programs in 49 courts for FY 2019-20 with these annual grants, and providing augmentation grants to dependency drug courts in 18 counties.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
The Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee recommends that the Judicial Council, effective September 23, 2019, approve the distribution of grants from the Collaborative Justice Courts Substance Abuse Focus Grant Program and the Dependency Drug Court Augmentation for FY 2019-20.