The Public Safety Office (PSO) is soliciting grant applications for local projects that support Operation Lone Star.
Donor Name: Public Safety Office
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/31/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Details:
The purpose of the program is to enhance interagency border security operations supporting Operation Lone Star including funding to help deter and interdict criminal activity related to the border crisis. Program participants shall assist in the execution of coordinated border security operations in an effort to:
- Law Enforcement
- Increase the effectiveness and impact of Operation Lone Star.
- Reduce border-related criminal activity in Texas.
- Implement and increase the effectiveness of operational methods, measures, and techniques for outbound/southbound operations.
- Decrease the supply of drugs smuggled into and through Texas from Mexico.
- Disrupt and deter operations of gang and cartel criminal organizations.
- Decrease specifically targeted tactics (such as conveyance methods) for drugs in the Texas border region.
- Jail Operations
- Increase capacity for detention operations and other supporting functions associated with increased criminal activity due to surges in illegal migration.
- Human Remains Processing
- Support county medical examiner offices in the humane processing of the remains of undocumented migrants.
- Court Administration
- Increase capacity and expediency in the case preparation, magistration, pre/post adjudication proceedings, and criminal trials of OLS defendants.
- Indigent Defense
- Increase capacity to provide indigent defense to OLS defendants in pre/post-adjudication proceedings, and criminal trials.
Funding Levels
- Minimum: $5,000
- Maximum: None
- Match Requirement: None
Eligible Organizations
- Units of local government; and
- Federally Recognized Native American tribes.
- Eligible applicants must be a county or a municipality located in a county that has issued a disaster declaration relating to border security.
- Preference will be given to eligible applicants within or providing support services to a County that is:
- adjacent to or a portion of which are located within 20 miles of an international border;
- adjacent to two counties located on an international border with a population of more than 5,000 and less than 7,500 according to the most recent federal decennial census; or
- adjacent to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, as defined by Section 51.002, Transportation Code;
- Jurisdictions not physically located within a county described in item 4. above (border county), but applying to provide support services to a jurisdiction that is physically located within a border county must submit a letter of support, memorandum of understanding or other similar documentation from the border counties requesting their supportive services.
For more information, visit State of Texas.
