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Collaborative Justice | Recommended Allocations of Fiscal Year 2020-21 Substance Abuse Focus Grants (Action Required)
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Summary
Summary
As part of the Budget Act of 2020 (Stats. 2020, 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. In November 2005, the Judicial Council established a caseload-based methodology for allocation of these funds (the Substance Abuse Focus Grants) to the courts. The Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee recommends that the Judicial Council allocate the fiscal year (FY) 2020-21 funds to courts using the council’s methodology. Additionally, $75,000 in federal Court Improvement Program funds have been made available for FY 2020-21 to fund the noncompetitive Dependency Drug Court Augmentation to the focus grant program. The committee recommends funding programs in 48 courts for FY 2020-21 with these annual grants and providing augmentation grants to dependency drug courts in 18 counties.
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Recommendation
The Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee recommends that the Judicial Council, effective November 13, 2020, approve the distribution of grants from the Collaborative Justice Courts Substance Abuse Focus Grant Program and the Dependency Drug Court Augmentation for FY 2020-21.