Section 363.151 - District Responsibilities; Limitations on Expenditures(a) The district may finance all the costs of a crime control and crime prevention program, including the costs for personnel, administration, expansion, enhancement, and capital expenditures.(b) The program may include police and law enforcement related programs, including: (1) a multijurisdiction crime analysis center;(2) mobilized crime analysis units;(3) countywide crime stoppers telephone lines;(4) united property-marking programs;(5) home security inspection programs;(6) an automated fingerprint analysis center;(7) an enhanced radio dispatch center;(8) a computerized criminal history system;(9) enhanced information systems programs;(10) a drug and chemical disposal center;(11) a county crime lab or medical examiner's lab; and(12) a regional law enforcement training center.(c) The program may include community-related crime prevention strategies, including: (1) block watch programs;(2) a community crime resistance program;(3) school-police programs;(4) senior citizen community safety programs;(5) senior citizen anticrime networks;(6) citizen crime-reporting projects;(8) a police-community cooperation program;(9) a radio alert program; and(10) ride along programs.(d) The program may include specific treatment and prevention programs, including: (1) positive peer group interaction programs;(2) drug and alcohol awareness programs;(3) countywide family violence centers;(4) work incentive programs;(5) social learning centers;(6) transitional aid centers and preparole centers;(7) guided group interaction programs;(8) social development centers;(9) street gang intervention centers;(10) predelinquency intervention centers;(11) school relations bureaus;(12) integrated community education systems;(13) steered straight programs;(14) probation subsidy programs;(15) Juvenile Offenders Learn Truth (JOLT) programs;(16) reformatory visitation programs;(17) juvenile awareness programs;(18) shock incarceration;(20) community restitution programs;(22) electronic monitoring programs;(23) community improvement programs;(25) victim restitution programs;(26) additional probation officers; and(27) additional parole officers.(e) The program may include court and prosecution services, including: (1) court watch programs;(2) community arbitration and mediation centers;(3) night prosecutors programs;(4) automated legal research systems;(5) an automated court management system;(6) a criminal court administrator;(7) an automated court reporting system;(8) additional district courts that are required by law to give preference to criminal cases, judges, and staff; and(9) additional prosecutors and staff.(f) The program may include additional jails, jailers, guards, and other necessary staff.Tex. Loc. Gov't. Code § 363.151
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 23.03(a), eff. 9/1/1997.