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PROPOSED GRANT AWARD RENEWAL
Department: Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
Grantee: Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
Grantor: Illinois State’s Attorney’s Appellate Prosecutor
Request: Authorization to renew grant
Purpose: This funding enables the State’s Attorney’s Office to maintain assistant state’s attorney positions in the Criminal Appeals Division that are dedicated to working on criminal appeals in Cook County
Grant Amount: $3,400,000.00
Grant Period: 7/1/2018-6/30/2019
Fiscal Impact: None
Accounts: N/A
Most Recent Date of Board Authorization for Grant: 9/13/2017
Most Recent Grant Amount: $2,000,000.00
Concurrences:
Budget and Management Services has received all requisite documents, and determined the fiscal impact on Cook County, if any.
Summary: This funding enables the State’s Attorney’s Office to maintain assistant state’s attorney positions in the Criminal Appeals Division that are dedicated to working on criminal appeals in Cook County. Since 2003, the State’s Attorney’s Office the State’s attorney’s Office has received funding from the State’s Attorney’s Appellate Prosecutor for the purpose of staffing the Criminal Appeals Division at a level that better balances staffing between defense attorneys working on criminal appeals in Cook County and the number of assistant state’s attorneys responding to those briefs.
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