Current through the 2023 Regular Session
Section 44-2-416 - Missing persons response team training grant program - reporting(1) There is a missing persons response team training grant program administered by the department of justice. The purpose of the grant program is to help fund training opportunities for community-based missing persons response teams.(2) Eligible teams may be multiagency and multijurisdictional and may include other community entities and volunteers. Eligible teams shall: (a) establish memorandums of understanding between the involved entities;(b) develop operational procedures and criteria under which a team activation can occur; and(c) participate in a community action planning effort conducted in accordance with department guidelines.(3) Eligible training expenses include but are not limited to the licensing costs of a training program, facilitator and conference location fees, and travel expenses for training staff and trainees.(4) The department shall report, in accordance with 5-11-210, on the grants awarded pursuant to this section to the state-tribal relations committee provided for in 5-5-229 by July 1 prior to each regular legislative session.Added by Laws 2023, Ch. 160,Sec. 1, eff. 7/1/2023.