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Knollenberg: Oakland County Sheriff's Department Receives Boost from U.S. House

Date: June 16, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Criminal Justice


Knollenberg: Oakland County Sheriff's Department Receives Boost from U.S. House
House bill includes department programs

Congressman Joe Knollenberg (R-MI-09) announced today that the Oakland County Sheriff's Department received a boost in U.S. House for two important law enforcement programs. The Science, State, Justice, and Commerce (SSJC) Appropriations bill (H.R. 2862) includes the Oakland County Sheriff's Department "Law Enforcement Technology," and the Oakland County Sheriff's Department/Oakland Schools/ Job Link Career Center partnership program.

"These programs are outstanding examples of innovative and common-sense law enforcement. Oakland County Sheriff's Department has done a great job at using pioneering technologies and partnerships to keep our community safe, while at the same time emphasizing efficiency." Congressman Knollenberg said.

The Department's Law Enforcement Technology Program will fund the Identification Based Information System (IBIS). IBIS is a hand-held digital fingerprint database and provides on-the-spot identification of criminals. This new technology is vital to the nation-wide crime detection program through the FBI. It is also compatible with the new fingerprinting and registration system to be used by the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS).

The legislation also includes the Oakland County Sheriff's Department/Oakland Schools/JobLink Career Center partnership. This program will create a "boot camp" in the Department's Regimented Inmate Discipline Program and provide training and job skills enhancement. The goal of the Oakland Schools/JobLink/Oakland County Sheriff's partnership is to return employable offenders to the job market, create alternative programs to ease jail overcrowding, and develop a jail industries program to allow the program to be self-sustaining.

H.R. 2862 passed the U.S. House today and now moves to the Senate for approval.

http://www.house.gov/knollenberg/mediacenter/press/2005/06-16-05%20.htm

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