By Erin Edgemon
AL.com
MONTGOMERY — The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $21.6 million in grant money to Alabama agencies and cities in the Middle District of Alabama in 2014, U. S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. announced today.
The money is to be used for crime prevention and victim services in the form of state and local initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, and information systems for criminal justice; to decrease the time necessary for DNA analysis; to aid in juvenile delinquent rehabilitation; and to provide a variety of victim services.
The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) Law Enforcement and Traffic Safety Division, the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center, the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences and the Alabama Board of Pardons and Pardons received a bulk of the funds.
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