Project Title: School Resource Officer
Recipient: Battle Ground, Washington
Amount: $200,000
Location: Battle Ground, Washington
Project Description: This funding would allow the City of Battle Ground to maintain a second School Resource Officer for two years to provide a vital security presence at Battle Ground High School.
Importance: In addition to helping Battle Ground High School deal with issues such as bullying, harassment, assaults, gangs, and weapons on campus, School Resource Officers also work with the business community around the school to minimize the potential impact on the community.
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Project Title: Crystal Judson Family Justice
Center Support Project
Recipient: Crystal Judson Family Justice
Center
Amount: $750,000
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Project Description: This funding would allow the Crystal Judson Family Justice Center to provide legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, child and parent support to victims, enhance volunteer recruitment and training, and better coordinate community domestic violence response training for law enforcement, prosecutors, and center staff.
Importance: In addition to providing essential services to domestic violence victims, this funding would support the law enforcement and advocacy community in their efforts to break the cycle of violence and hold offenders accountable.
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Project Title: Public Safety Package
Recipient: City of Fife on behalf of the
Cooperative Cities of Pierce County
Amount: $350,000
Location: Fife, Washington
Other Agencies Involved: Puyallup Tribal
Nation, Washington State Patrol, Port of Tacoma, Pierce County, King
County, East Pierce Fire Department, Central Pierce Fire Department,
and the Tacoma Fire Department. Pierce and King County
Project Description: This funding would help first responders obtain essential equipment needed to perform safely and efficiently.
Importance: First responders such as police, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians are vital resources to keep our communities safe and secure and this equipment would help them to support this mission.
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Project Title: King County Superior Court
Criminal Tracking System
Recipient: King County
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Project Description: This funding would allow King County to develop and implement an information system that will allow judges, prosecutors, law enforcement and detention agencies to track the progress of criminals moving through the criminal justice system.
Importance: This project would demonstrate the viability of an integrated criminal tracking system and establish the technological infrastructure to improve the quality of data sharing for King County. Better criminal tracking at all levels of the criminal justice system would benefit public safety.
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Project Title: Conversion of Client
Tracking System
Recipient: King County Sexual Assault
Resource Center
Amount: $250,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Project Description: This funding would allow King County to convert their Sexual Assault Resource Center’s Client Tracking System to an updated database that will enable greater data security, more efficient tracking of the over 1,000 clients that the center serves, and provide a more robust ability to extract data to inform policy and program decisions.
Importance: In addition to enabling the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center to deliver services more efficiently and serve more children, youth and adults impacted by sexual violence, the upgraded data system will enable policy makers and public agencies to utilize data for continuous program improvement and policy development.
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Project Title: Community
E-Policing Technology Initiative
Recipient: King County Sheriff’s Office
Amount: $500,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Project Description: This funding will allow the King County Sheriff’s Office to develop and implement a community-based, voluntary internet policing communication plan. This plan would allow two-way open communication between police and community members and would enable police officers to monitor social networks for gang and other illegal activity.
Importance: In addition to allowing citizens to engage with law enforcement officers to ensure community safety, this project would establish and maintain communication that would allow police to relay important messages to the public and give citizens the ability to report issues requiring police attention.
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Project Title: Gang Intervention Initiative
Recipient: King County Sheriff’s Office
Amount: $500,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Project Description: This funding would allow the King County Sheriff’s Office to facilitate the implementation of an overarching gang intervention strategy while enabling them to maintain and enhance existing gang unit and intelligence-gathering activities.
Importance: The Gang Intervention Initiative is vital to curbing gang activity in King County, which is experiencing a resurgence of gang activity.
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Project Title: Regional 911 Dispatch
Improvements
Recipient: City of Longview
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Longview, Washington
Project Description: This funding would allow the City of Longview to install a new Computer Aided Dispatch system which will enable the law enforcement agencies in Cowlitz County to deploy personnel in a more effective manner and share information more effectively with other jurisdictions.
Importance: Improving the dispatching and deployment ability of the law enforcement agencies in Cowlitz County will lead to faster response times and improve public safety.
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Project Title: Neah Bay Public Safety
Correctional Facility
Recipient: Makah Tribe
Amount: $500,000
Location: Neah Bay, Washington
Project Description: This funding will allow the Makah Tribe to remodel the existing Neah Bay Correctional Facility and address jail cell, air quality, water quality, and plumbing issues to maintain an environment that is safe and secure for inmates, corrections staff and the Makah Tribal Community.
Importance: Remodeling of the existing Neah Bay Public Safety Correctional Facility is needed to ensure public safety.
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Project Title: Proactive Community
Policing Initiative
Recipient: Marysville Police Department
Amount: $1,147,000
Location: Marysville, Washington
Project Description: This funding will allow the Marysville Police Department to support a community policing initiative, engaging community residents with a goal of sustained community crime reduction.
Importance: This project will empower the community to participate in crime prevention solutions and improve community safety. Further, the investment in community policing initiatives will yield much greater savings due to the reduction in theft, vandalism, and other crime.
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Project Title: Emergency Services
Equipment – City of Mountlake Terrace
Recipient: Mountlake Terrace
Amount: $500,000
Location: Mountlake Terrace, Washington
Project Description: This funding will allow the City of Mountlake Terrace to complete integration with the Southwest Snohomish County Communications Agency (SNOCOM) and obtain the necessary equipment to respond to emergencies.
Importance: This project will provide the Mountlake Terrace Police Department with access to an interoperable regional emergency services communications system that will maximize public safety. With interoperable communications equipment and modern law enforcement tools, the Mountlake Terrace police department will have the information and communications infrastructure in place to meet the needs of the community.
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Project Title: NOAA NMFS Mukilteo Research
Station Planning and Design
Recipient: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Amount: $500,000
Location: Mukilteo, Washington
Project Description: This funding will allow NOAA to support the planning and design of a new NOAA NMFS Research Station to replace the existing 60-year-old barracks the facility now operates from.
Importance: A new NOAA facility in Mukilteo is a critical component of a revitalized waterfront in the City of Mukilteo. This new facility will support important research on the health of the Puget Sound and also help develop a public education facility to teach about the health of Puget Sound and its impact on communities in Washington state.
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Project Title: Northwest Straits Marine
Conservation Initiative
Recipient: Northwest Straits Commission
Amount: $1,800,000
Location: Mt. Vernon, Washington
Project Description: This funding would be used by the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative to continue protecting and restoring the vital marine resources of northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca through its unique, citizen-driven, “bottom-up” approach.
Importance: In addition to helping support local jobs at each of the seven county-based Marine Resources Committees and field-based restoration jobs, this funding will support Puget Sound fisheries and the overall ecosystem health of the region.
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Project Title: Okanogan County Substance
Abuse and Violence Prevention Program
Recipient: Okanogan Behavioral HealthCare
Amount: $175,000
Location: Omak, Washington
Project Description: Okanogan Behavioral HealthCare would use this funding to support education and an aggressive research-based marketing campaign focusing on underage drinking, marijuana, and prescription drug abuse.
Importance: Current research on addiction shows that if the age of first use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is increased dependence later in life will significantly decrease. By delivering a comprehensive prevention curriculum to middle school youth and quality parent-education to parents substance abuse and violence will decrease.
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Project Title: Enhanced Monitoring of Zebra
and other Invasive Species
Recipient: Pacific States Marine Fisheries
Commission
Amount: $450,000
Location: Portland, Oregon
Project Description: This funding will enable the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission to monitor invasive species outbreaks, which could devastate local economies, and enhance coordination with other states in the region.
Importance: Zebra and quagga mussels are some of the most economically damaging aquatic organisms to invade the United States. This funding would support early-detection monitoring and implementing a quick response necessary to prevent their further expansion.
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Project Title: Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking
(POST) Project – Marine animal tracking system
Recipient: Pacific States Marine Fisheries
Commission
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Portland, Oregon
Project Description: The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) project would use this funding to collect data on fish movement and survival in the ocean by maintaining acoustic receivers on the sea floor in lines across the continental shelf along the West Coast.
Importance: Currently, fish can be tracked in rivers and estuary habitat, but once the fish leave for the ocean they are largely untracked. It is critical to learn how marine animals, such as fish, move throughout their life cycle so critical management decisions can be made. This data would have significant implications for restoring West Coast fisheries, including salmon fisheries.
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Project Title: National Methamphetamine
Technical Training and Assistance Center
Recipient: Pierce County Alliance
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Project Description: This funding would allow the Pierce County Alliance to provide a centralized, easily accessed facility with critical information and support for states and communities impacted by methamphetamine.
Importance: This funding will support the National Methamphetamine Technical Training and Assistance Center in its effort to further reduce the use and production of methamphetamine.
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Project Title: Washington State
Methamphetamine Initiative
Recipient: Pierce County Alliance
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Project Description: This funding will improve enforcement, abate the illicit production of methamphetamine, and provide prevention, treatment, and training resources to communities working to curb methamphetamine use and production across the state.
Importance: The Washington State Methamphetamine Initiative has been a crucial asset to Washington state it its battle against methamphetamine use and production. This initiative helps coordinate local communities’ efforts to combat these problems.
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Project Title: Pierce County First
Responders Radio System Infrastructure Project
Recipient: Pierce County Sheriff’s
Department
Amount: $2,400,000
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Project Description: This funding will enable the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department to move public safety radio frequencies from wideband operation to narrowband operation.
Importance: This project will allow police officers and firefighters to safely communicate via radio networks.
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Project Title: Pierce County Regional Gang
Prevention Partnership
Recipient: Safe Streets Campaign
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Project Description: The Safe Streets Campaign would use this funding to implement a gang prevention model that brings the combined power of community mobilization, prevention, intervention, and suppression resources together to build a collaborative and sustained interdisciplinary effort to reach our youth and families at risk of gang involvement to reduce the number of youth who join gangs.
Importance: Gang activity is a serious problem in Pierce County and the intervention model of the Pierce County Regional Gang Prevention Partnership contributes to crime reduction.
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Project Title: Seattle Youth Violence
Prevention Initiative
Recipient: City of Seattle
Amount: $500,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Project Description: The City of Seattle would use this funding to increase the skills and capacity of the street outreach team; engage and train the Seattle Police Department in street outreach methodology; and establish partnerships, communication and coordination among other cities’ street outreach efforts.
Importance: There is a resurgence of youth violence in Seattle and the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative is essential to curbing this trend. Street outreach is an effective strategy to reduce youth violence and engage some of the hardest to reach youth.
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Project Title: Skokomish Community Drug
Prevention and Treatment Project
Recipient: Skokomish Indian Nation
Amount: $250,000
Location: Skokomish, Washington
Project Description: This funding would provide for expanded treatment opportunities for the at risk youth within the Skokomish tribal community.
Importance: Tribal communities suffer from disproportionate amounts of violence and substance abuse. The Tribe will use traditional Native-American teachings and cultural reinforcement, along with expanded family services counseling and treatment to address these twin issues among their tribal members.
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Project Title: Automated Field Reporting
Infrastructure Improvement Project
Recipient: Snohomish County Sheriff’s
Office
Amount: $1,223,100
Location: Everett, Washington
Project Description: The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office would use this funding to implement a county-wide police dispatch and records management system.
Importance: Improved dispatch capabilities will allow all Snohomish County law enforcement agencies to respond more quickly to emergency situations and enhance community safety.
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Project Title: Spokane County Sheriff’s
Office Regional Airborne Law Enforcement
Recipient: Spokane County Sheriff’s
Office
Amount: $990,000
Location: Spokane, Washington
Project Description: The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office would use this funding to provide aerial assistance to the law enforcement and firefighting agencies of the inland Northwest.
Importance: Airborne capabilities provide Spokane County first responders vital support during search and rescue, surveillance, drug interdiction, fire suppression, natural disaster, and fugitive search operations.
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Project Title: Spokane Police Records
Management
Recipient: Spokane Police Department
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Spokane, Washington
Project Description: The Spokane Police Department would use this funding to update a regional law enforcement dispatch and records management system that is almost twenty years old. This out-dated technology is no longer supported and does not comply with current standards and regulations.
Importance: These systems must be replaced to ensure officers receive vital information and access to this information keeps officers informed of potentially dangerous situations.
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Project Title: Preventing Armed
Confrontations between Police Officers and the Public
Recipient: Washington Association of
Sheriffs and Police Chiefs
Amount: $360,000
Location: Lacey, Washington
Project Description: The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs would use this funding to support a study documenting all officer-involved shootings in Washington state during the past five years.
Importance: This study will produce results that will assist law enforcement in the development of techniques to prevent armed confrontations. This study will allow the examination of factors which contribute to officer-involved shootings, will add measurably to current knowledge of these events, and help police forces reduce the incidence of police officer shootings.
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Project Title: Public Safety Mapping
System for Washington State’s Four-Year Regional Universities
Recipient: Washington Association of
Sheriffs and Police Chiefs
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Lacey, Washington
Project Description: The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs would use this funding to map Washington’s four regional 4-year universities using the Washington State School Mapping System to protect students and employees during an emergency.
Importance: The Washington State School Mapping System provides comprehensive mapping and other critical information to first-responders and develops incident response plans in order to be most efficient in emergency situations.
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Project Title: Multi-Jurisdictional Data
Integration Project
Recipient: Whatcom County
Amount: $350,000
Location: Bellingham, Washington
Project Description: This funding would allow Whatcom County to deploy a computerized information system allowing the exchange of information among all law enforcement and justice agencies in Whatcom County, as well as state and federal agencies.
Importance: This system tracks criminal offenders from the moment they enter the criminal justice system until they are re-integrated back into the community and beyond, allowing for local, regional, and federal authorities to collaborate effectively to monitor and reduce criminal activity and better track criminals and increase safety.
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Project Title: Rapid Border Prosecution
Recipient: Whatcom County
Amount: $560,000
Location: Bellingham, Washington
Project Description: Whatcom County would use this funding to reduce the financial impact to the local criminal justice system from border related crime.
Importance: These funds support critical prosecution of numerous crimes in Whatcom County that may otherwise go unprosecuted and do not fit within the traditional requirements of the Northern Border Prosecution Initiatives, including fugitive extraditions to the United States and border “bounce backs,” in which a person is denied entry into Canada and commits a crime within Whatcom County.
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Project Title: Yakima County Comprehensive
Youth Gang Project
Recipient: Yakima County
Amount: $500,000
Location: Yakima, Washington
Project Description: Yakima County would use this funding to provide prevention, intervention and suppression services to reduce gang activity in Yakima County.
Importance: This project will aggressively focus on diverting youth away from gang involvement in Yakima County and use resources to assist the community in reducing gang activity.