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Department: IChildren &Families
Contractor/Supplier/Consultant Name: IN/AI
Contractor Contact: IN/AI Contractor Phone #: IN/AI
Type of Document: Office on Violence Against Women, Grants to Encourage Arrest
Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program Application. Documents
requiring signature: Memorandum of Understanding, Letter of Nonsupplanting, Letter of
Certification and Eligibility. Documents requiring electronic signature/assurances:
Application for Federal Assistance SF-424, Standard Assurances and Certifications
Regarding Lobbying, Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters, and
Drug-Free Workplace Requirements (Form 4061/6).
Goods and/or Services: This is a continuation application for the Office on Violence
Against Women, Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection
Orders Program.
Background & History: The Deschutes County Children & Families Commission
(CFC) is serving as the applicant on behalf of the Board of County Commissioners. CFC
will enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement with Deschutes County Parole &
Probation and subcontract with Saving Grace-Imagine Life Without Violence to provide
services. CFC applied for and the county was awarded $300,000 in FFY 2010-2012 to
fund this project.
The primary goals of this project are to enhance victim safety and hold batterers
accountable by implementing collaborative use of the Lethality Assessment Program
(LAP) and by increasing supervision of high-risk offenders, with use of the LAP to inform
level of supervision. LAP is a research-based domestic violence risk assessment that is
being utilized by law enforcement officers to connect high-risk domestic violence victims
with domestic violence program services.
The grant funding will: 1) Provide on-going training on lethality and danger assessment
for collaborative partners; 2) Promote coordinated community responses that account
for victim safety by implementation of the LAP and Danger Assessment and the
coordination of Best Practice Assessments for 9-1-1 and Patrol Response, and Police
Follow-up Investigations and Prosecution Charging Decisions; 3) Provide immediate
access to services for victims at high risk of lethality; 4) Provide culturally appropriate
services to Latino victims; 5) Ensure high-risk offenders are held accountable; and 6)
Purchase two infrared cameras to enhance investigation and prosecution of
strangulation.
2129/2012
Phone #: 322-7461
Departmental Contact and Title: IHiliary Saraceno, Directofj Phone #:
1317-317ij
Department Director Approval: /~~
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been signed? Include complete information if the document is to be mailed.
Sarah Johnson
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County Signature Required (check one): D SOCC D Department Director (if <$25K)
D Administrator (if >$25K but <$150K; if >$150K, SOCC Order No. _____)
Legal Review Date
Document Number ________2012-148__
2/29/2012
February 22, 2012
Director
Department of Justice, Office on Violence against Women
145 N. Street, NE, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20530
Re: Arrest Program
Dear Director:
As Chief Executive Officer of Deschutes County, I submit this letter to certify to the following:
I) the laws or official policies of Deschutes County encourage or mandate arrests of
domestic violence offenders based on probable cause that an offense has been
committed;
2) the laws or official policies of Deschutes County encourage or mandate arrests of
domestic violence offenders who violate the terms of a valid and outstanding
protection order;
3) the laws, policies, or practices and the training programs of Deschutes County
discourage dual arrests of offender and victim;
4) the laws, policies, or practices of Deschutes County prohibit issuance of mutual
restraining orders of protection except in cases where both spouses file a claim and
the court makes detailed findings of fact indicating that both spouses acted primarily
as aggressors and that neither spouse acted primarily in self-defense;
5) the laws, policies, and practices of Deschutes County do not require, in connection
with the prosecution of any misdemeanor or felony domestic violence offense, or in
connection with the filing, issuance, registration, or service of a protection order, or a
petition for a protection order, to protect a victim of sexual assault, domestic violence
and stalking, or that the victim bear the costs associated with the filing of criminal
charges against the offender, or the costs associated with the tiling, issuance,
registration, or service of a warrant, protection order, petition for a protection order,
or witness subpoena, whether issued inside or outside the State, Tribal, or local
jurisdiction; and
6) the laws, policies or practices of Deschutes County ensure that:
(A)no law enforcement officer, prosecuting officer or other government official shall
ask or require an adult, youth, or child victim of a sex offense as defined under
Federal, Tribal, State, territorial, or local law to submit to a polygraph
examination or other truth telling device as a condition for proceeding with the
investigation of such an offense, and
(B) the refusal ofa victim to submit to an examination described in subparagraph (A)
shall not prevent the investigation of the offense.
Sincerely,