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Sessions Announces Funding Department of Corrections
The funding is part of the SMART Office for the Adam Walsh Implementation Grant Program, a branch of the U.S. Department of Justice.
“I am pleased the Alabama Department of Corrections will be able to further protect Alabama citizens from sex-offenders through this $282,500 federal grant,” Sessions said. “As a former federal prosecutor, I prosecuted a number of individuals charged with sexual-based offenses. The registration program will allow law enforcement officials to better track sex offenders after they serve their sentences, and it will equip parents with the information needed to protect their children.”
Sessions, a senior member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, voted in favor of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which President Bush signed into law in 2007.
Adam Walsh was a six-year old abducted and murdered in 1981. The bill, named in his memory, has helped strengthen federal laws to protect children from sexual and violent crimes.
Federal grant programs are one way that local leaders, elected officials, and non-profit organizations can secure funding for local community improvement projects. Twenty-six federal agencies administer over 1,000 different competitive grant programs each year.
Sessions’ Birmingham office includes a full-time staff member to help local officials around the state seeking federal grants. In the last two years, the office assisted in obtaining over $183 million in federal funds for communities and organizations in Alabama.
Sessions’ office also publishes a Weekly Grants Advisory, available on Sessions’ website, www.sessions.senate.gov, to make grant information and application procedures more accessible to leaders in Alabama.
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