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HOUSE BILL 286
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
OF
NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Meredith A. Dixon
AN ACT
RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE; AMENDING THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH
A CRIME REDUCTION GRANT APPLICATION MAY BE MADE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 31-28-4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2019,
Chapter 192, Section 8, as amended) is amended to read:
"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;
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(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)] (7) develop or expand digitized records;
[(9)] (8) 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)] (9) develop or expand data-driven
policing programs and pretrial services;
[(11)] (10) staff a criminal justice
coordinating council; and
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[(12)] (11) 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;
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(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."
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