MN HF4159

Commissioner of Public Safety may award a grant to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to conduct training, technical support, and peer learning for counties implementing "Right on Crime" juvenile detention reform strategies.

Grant recipient must identify and support statewide implementation of eight core strategies from the Annie E. Casey Foundation including collaboration, accurate data use, objective admissions criteria, nonsecure detention alternatives, case processing reforms, and reducing racial disparities.

Grant recipient must provide training and technical support to counties, consistently collect and report data on program effectiveness, and submit an evaluation plan to the commissioner.

Portion of grant funds must be designated for counties to implement juvenile detention reform, with most grant money directed to benefit greater Minnesota.

$1,500,000 appropriated from general fund for fiscal year 2018 and $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2019 to the commissioner of public safety for the grant program.