- (a) The district may finance all the costs of a crime control and crime prevention program, including the costs for personnel, administration, expansion, enhancement, and capital expenditures.
(b) The program may include police and law enforcement related programs, including:
- (1) a multijurisdiction crime analysis center;
- (2) mobilized crime analysis units;
- (3) countywide crime stoppers telephone lines;
- (4) united property-marking programs;
- (5) home security inspection programs;
- (6) an automated fingerprint analysis center;
- (7) an enhanced radio dispatch center;
- (8) a computerized criminal history system;
- (9) enhanced information systems programs;
- (10) a drug and chemical disposal center;
- (11) a county crime lab or medical examiner's lab; and
- (12) a regional law enforcement training center.
(c) The program may include community-related crime prevention strategies, including:
- (1) block watch programs;
- (2) a community crime resistance program;
- (3) school-police programs;
- (4) senior citizen community safety programs;
- (5) senior citizen anticrime networks;
- (6) citizen crime-reporting projects;
- (7) home alert programs;
- (8) a police-community cooperation program;
- (9) a radio alert program; and
- (10) ride along programs.
(d) The program may include specific treatment and prevention programs, including:
- (1) positive peer group interaction programs;
- (2) drug and alcohol awareness programs;
- (3) countywide family violence centers;
- (4) work incentive programs;
- (5) social learning centers;
- (6) transitional aid centers and preparole centers;
- (7) guided group interaction programs;
- (8) social development centers;
- (9) street gang intervention centers;
- (10) predelinquency intervention centers;
- (11) school relations bureaus;
- (12) integrated community education systems;
- (13) steered straight programs;
- (14) probation subsidy programs;
- (15) Juvenile Offenders Learn Truth (JOLT) programs;
- (16) reformatory visitation programs;
- (17) juvenile awareness programs;
- (18) shock incarceration;
- (19) shock probation;
- (20) community restitution programs;
- (21) team probation;
- (22) electronic monitoring programs;
- (23) community improvement programs;
- (24) at-home arrest;
- (25) victim restitution programs;
- (26) additional probation officers; and
- (27) additional parole officers.
(e) The program may include court and prosecution services, including:
- (1) court watch programs;
- (2) community arbitration and mediation centers;
- (3) night prosecutors programs;
- (4) automated legal research systems;
- (5) an automated court management system;
- (6) a criminal court administrator;
- (7) an automated court reporting system;
- (8) additional district courts that are required by law to give preference to criminal cases, judges, and staff; and
- (9) additional prosecutors and staff.
- (f) The program may include additional jails, jailers, guards, and other necessary staff.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 23.03(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.