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Agency Budget Summary
Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) uses a combination of two methodologies to determine the available resources for its annual anti-drug program: (1) a percent of total costs forselected programs based on a review of drug-related workload data and (2) direct costs related to drug specific projects.
III. Program Summary
- The OJP, established by the Justice Assistance Act of 1984, supports cooperation of law enforcement at all levels in building networks that allow the criminal justice system to function more effectively. In addressing these issues, OJP also dedicates resources to aid in the fight against drugs, which supports two Goals of the Strategy.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
- OJP's FY 1999 program estimate totals $997.5 million and 250 FTEs. Following is a breakdown of OJP's resources by Strategy goal.
Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the use of alcohol and tobacco.
- OJP's FY 1999 program includes $119 million for programs that support Goal 1 activities. In FY 1999, OJP's funding includes resources for the following activities: providing information to promote effective prevention efforts to parents, schools and community groups; and providing assistance to state and local law enforcement.
Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
- The FY 1999 program includes $878.5 million for programs that support Goal 2 activities. Program funding includes support to state and local law enforcement entities or activities whose primary purpose is to assist state and local law enforcement efforts to investigate, arrest, prosecute, incarcerate drug offenders, or otherwise reduce the supply of illegal drugs; and activities associated with the incarceration and/or monitoring of drug offenders. Also, included under Goal 2 are all resources associated with criminal justice drug testing, treatment and intervention activities.
2000 Request
- The total FY 2000 drug control budget request is $745.6 million and 230 FTEs, which is a decrease of $251.8 million below the FY 1999 level. The following provides a breakdown of the FY 2000 request by Strategy goal.
Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the use of alcohol and tobacco.
- The total FY 2000 drug control request for Goal 1 is $96.1 million, a net decrease of $22.9 million from the FY 1999 level. This decrease includes the following program changes:
- Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM): $0.8 million increase to expand the number of ADAM sites from 35 to 50 in 2000. Critical data collected from ADAM sites will provide the information foundation to analyze drug and crime trends relevant to justice, public health and social service policy. (It should be note that a portion of this program is also scored under Goal 2.)
- $10 million increase for the Juvenile Drug Prevention Demonstration Program.
- $1.8 million increase for the Community Demonstration on Alcohol and Crime Initiative.
- $25 million decrease as a result of no funding requested for Juvenile Underage Drinking Program.
- $9.3 million decrease as a result of reduced total funding requested for the Byrne Formula and Discretionary Grant Programs.
- $1.1 million decrease in Research, Evaluation and Demonstration programs.
Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
- The total FY 2000 drug control request for Goal 2 is $649.5 million, a net decrease of $228.9 million from FY 1999 level. This decrease includes several components including the following program changes:
V. Program Accomplishments
- OJP supports a wide-range of drug-related programs to battle all aspects of drug abuse. Highlighted below are some of the OJP's key programs and some of their 1998 accomplishments.
- Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program (RSAT): The RSAT program is a formula grant program that provides funds to the states for state and local correctional agencies to establish or expand residential substance treatment for offenders. The Corrections Program Office (CPO) reviews applications and makes awards as quickly as possible, as well as provides technical assistance to help states to implement effective treatment programs.
In 1998, OJP successfully initiated or expanded seventy-four residential substance abuse treatment programs in state and local correctional facilities, treated 10,220 offenders for substance abuse and provided an estimated 800 state and local policy makers and correctional and treatment practitioners with technical assistance and training.
- Drug Courts Program Office (DCPO): From 1995 through 1998, DCPO has awarded more than $73 million to approximately 433 jurisdictions for planning, implementation, or enhancement of drug courts. It is important to note that all drug courts, adult and juvenile, share a unified goal of reducing crime and delinquency in their communities. The drug court movement began as a grass roots, community-level response to reduce crime and substance abuse among criminal justice offenders. A drug court brings together the court, other criminal justice agencies, and the treatment community to intervene with and track substance abusing offenders through the coercive power of the court.
In 1998, 112 new drug courts were established, including tribal drug courts, and 85 percent of drug court program participants (in DCPO funded programs) did not commit other crimes while participating in the program.
- Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring System (ADAM): ADAM will provide local and national policy makers a strong basis from which to make policy decisions. It is the only federally-funded drug use prevalence program to directly address the relationship between drug use and criminal behavior, and is the only program to provide drug use estimates based on urinalysis results, which are proven to be the most reliable method of determining recent use. ADAM findings are processed and released immediately and allow for quarterly monitoring in changes of use of a wide range of drugs by numerous subgroups of the offender population. The capability to look at drug use at the local level was the most important contribution made by the original Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program. It is now better understood how different kinds of drugs are abused and that patterns of use vary tremendously from one region of the country -- and even one city -- to the next. For example, the growing phenomenon of methamphetamine use in the West became apparent through the DUF program while other systems had only started to register the trend. In 1998, ADAM will expand from 23 to 35 sites.
- Byrne Formula Grant Program: The Byrne Formula Grant Program is authorized by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, as amended, and administered by OJP's Bureau of Justice Assistance. This program assists states and units of local government in carrying out programs that offer a high probability of improving the functioning of the criminal justice system, with a special emphasis on nationwide and multi-level drug control strategies and violent crime prevention. The States, in consultation with local officials, develop statewide drug and violent crime strategies and funding priorities to address their drug and violent crime problems and to improve the functioning of their criminal justice systems, while supporting national priorities and objectives. Grantees may direct the funds received under the Byrne Formula Grant Program in one or more of the twenty-six program purpose areas authorized by the law.
In 1998, State administrative agencies continued to expand Byrne funds across all twenty-six purpose areas. The area with the highest percentages of 1998 allocations include multi-jurisdictional task forces (the largest percentage of funds at approximately 37.6 percent), criminal justice information systems improvements, crime prevention programs, and corrections improvement programs.
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