2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 31 - Criminal Procedure › Article 28 - Crime Reduction Grant › Section 31-28-4 - Applications for grants; purposes; conditions.

A. A member of a criminal justice coordinating council with the consent of the council may apply to the commission for a grant to accomplish any of the enumerated purposes provided in Subsection B of this section.
B. Crime reduction grants may be made to:
(1) develop, expand and improve evidence-based treatment and supervision alternatives to incarceration;
(2) reduce barriers to participation by criminal offenders in preprosecution diversion or specialty court programs;
(3) develop or improve pretrial service programs;
(4) develop or improve coordination of services between law enforcement agencies and treatment programs;
(5) establish law enforcement crisis intervention teams;
(6) coordinate access to programs for transitional or reentry homes for individuals recently released from incarceration;
(7) recruit or retain law enforcement officers, prosecutors, public defenders, corrections officers and mental health workers;
(8) develop or expand digitized records;
(9) develop or expand the ability of a criminal justice coordinating council member to share data with, and access data on, the statewide criminal justice data integration platform;
(10) develop or expand data-driven policing programs and pretrial services;
(11) staff a criminal justice coordinating council; and
(12) purchase equipment or provide training to support any of the purposes provided in this section.
C. Crime reduction grants shall be conditioned on the criminal justice coordinating council and the recipient member complying with the following:
(1) using not more than five percent of a grant for administrative costs of the recipient;
(2) in consultation with the commission, developing data-sharing agreements and methods of data sharing among criminal justice agencies and with the commission to allow system-wide analysis of criminal justice operations within the judicial district and statewide;
(3) using or developing evidence-based best practices for any programs operated with crime reduction grants;
(4) developing performance measures in consultation with the commission relevant to the grantee's application;
(5) collecting data to evaluate the effectiveness of programs operated with crime reduction grants;
(6) evaluating quarterly the process, outputs, outcomes and other performance measures of programs funded with grants for compliance with all provisions of the Crime Reduction Grant Act;
(7) providing a quarterly report to the commission for review and comparison with other programs receiving grants for similar purposes; and
(8) providing an annual report to the commission by October 1 of each year regarding program outcomes from use of the grant.
D. The commission shall assist with the implementation of data-sharing agreements to ensure compliance with crime reduction grants.
E. The commission may consider any outcome reported to it by a grant recipient from a previous year in making a determination of whether to make subsequent grants or the amount of a subsequent grant.
History:
Laws 2019, ch. 192, § 8; 2022, ch. 56, § 32; 2023, ch. 60, § 3.
ANNOTATIONS
The 2023 amendment,
effective June 16, 2023, authorized members of criminal justice coordinating councils to apply to the New Mexico sentencing commission for crime reduction grants, removed language authorizing council members to apply to grant administration agencies for crime reduction grants, added, to an existing list of authorized crime reduction grant purposes, the development or expansion of digitized records and the development or expansion of council members ability to share data with, and access data on, the statewide criminal justice data integration platform, and made technical changes to conform with these amendments; in Subsection A, after "may apply to", deleted "a grant administration agency" and added "the commission"; in Subsection B, added Paragraphs B(8) and B(9) and redesignated former Paragraphs B(8) through B(10) as Paragraphs B(10) through B(12), respectively; in Subsection C, Paragraph C(4), after "commission", deleted "and the grant administration agency", and in Paragraph C(8), after "report to the", deleted "grant administration agency" and added "commission"; deleted former Subsection E, which related to grant administration agencies, and redesignated former Subsection F as Subsection E; and in Subsection E, deleted "A grant administration agency" and added "The commission".
The 2022 amendment,
effective May 18, 2022, expanded the purposes for which crime reduction grants may be awarded; and in Subsection B, added new Paragraphs B(4) through B(9) and redesignated former Paragraph B(4) as Paragraph B(10).