Gang Reduction, Investment, and Prevention Act

To expand and improve Federal gang prevention programs.

10/22/2007--Introduced.
Gang Reduction, Investment, and Prevention Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to:
(1) designate and provide assistance to high-intensity gang activity areas in specified states and localities;
(2) make grants to develop community-based programs for gang members and high-risk youth;
(3) expand the Project Safe Neighborhoods program;
(4) expand the Safe Streets Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to support criminal street gang enforcement teams; and
(5) make grants for demonstration projects to carry out innovative approaches to combat gang activity.
Directs the Attorney General to establish a National Gang Activity Database to provide information to law enforcement agencies about criminal street gangs.
Directs the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to establish a National Gang Research, Evaluation, and Policy Institute to implement programs to combat gang violence, including conducting a national conference to teach and promote gang violence prevention, intervention, and reentry strategies and establishing one or more gang intervention academies to promote effective gang intervention and policing.
Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to authorize grants to assist prosecutors and law enforcement officers in investigating and prosecuting gang members and violent offenders.
Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to expand the number of sites receiving juvenile delinquency reduction grants from 4 to 12. Extends funding for the Mentoring Initiative for System Involved Youth Program through FY2013.
Establishes in the U.S. Marshals Service a Short-Term State Witness Protection Section to provide protection for witnesses in state and local trials involving homicide or other major violent crimes. Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to prosecutor's offices to identify witnesses in need of protection.

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Sponsor

• Rep. Vern Buchanan [R, FL-13]
• and 1 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Ric Keller [R, FL-8]
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Committees

• House Judiciary
• 3 more
  • House Judiciary
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
October 22, 2007

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• Nov 14, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
• Nov 02, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
• Oct 22, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Oct 22, 2007: Referred to House Judiciary
• Oct 22, 2007: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Introduced on Oct 22, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• S.456
• H.R.1582
• H.R.3547

Related Issue Areas:

• Youth services
• Witnesses
• Violence
• Technology
• 27 more
• State and local government
• Social services
• Rehabilitation of criminals
• Prosecution
• Police training
• Mentoring
• Juvenile delinquency
• Job training
• Homicide
• Government publicity
• Government information
• Gangs
• Federal-state relations
• Federal-local relations
• Federal aid to law enforcement
• Executive reorganization
• Executive departments
• Department of Justice
• Data banks
• Criminal justice information
• Criminal investigation
• Crime prevention
• Conferences
• Communications
• Children
• Budgets
• Criminal justice

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