[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 17, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1447]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                         HON. BRIAN P. BILBRAY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 16, 2009

  Mr. BILBRAY. Madam Speaker, I submit the following:
  Requesting Member: Congressman Brian Bilbray
  Bill Number: H.R. 2847, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010
  Account: Department of Justice, Byrne Justice Assistance Grants
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Carlsbad
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1200 Carlsbad Village Drive, Carlsbad, 
CA 92008
  Description of Request: I received an earmark of $300,000 for the 
City of Carlsbad to construct the first Joint Fire and Police training 
center in North San Diego County, providing an unparalleled opportunity 
for first responders to train together and deliver enhanced and 
coordinated safety for the citizens of our region. Regional public 
safety collaboration will result in better training, yielding stronger 
and more coordinated responses by fire, police, public works, FBI, DEA 
and other North County law enforcement agencies. This project will also 
better prepare a coordinated, unified response to large-scale disasters 
and fires in the region.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Brian Bilbray
  Bill Number: H.R. 2847, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010
  Account: Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Byrne 
Justice Assistance
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Escondido
  Address of Requesting Entity: 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025
  Description of Request: I received an earmark of $200,000 for the 
Escondido Police Department to fund new Mobile Data Computers. Mobile 
Data Computers (MDCs) enhance emergency communications and support 
electronic messaging between police vehicles. Officers are dependent on 
this technology to be responsive to emergencies and have the necessary 
information to operate safely. Vehicles with new MDCs will increase 
officer communications and enable them to interface with Escondido's 
new CAD system with its GPS feature. During a large, regional emergency 
(e.g. a wildfire scenario) the Emergency Operations Center and 911 
dispatch center will be able to visually determine where every Police 
and Fire unit is located and position them more effectively.
  The Police Department currently maintains approximately 160 Mobile 
Data Computers. About 40 percent of these are three to four years old 
and are used beyond the manufacturers warranty period. Although these 
MDCs are still in the field and functioning, they are very costly to 
maintain. Not surprisingly, the successful deployment of the mobile 
laptop computers also has created a demand for increased access to new 
applications (e.g. Automated Field Reporting) and regional law 
enforcement databases (e.g. ARJIS, CLETS), which puts a strain on these 
older mobile computers. Pushing these older mobile computers to the 
edge of their limits makes it difficult to maintain the reliability 
necessary for public safety operations. More importantly, some of the 
desired applications (ARJISNet, SDLaw, CalPhoto, new CAD system) simply 
cannot be accommodated on the older existing MDCs.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Brian Bilbray
  Bill Number: H.R. 2847, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010
  Account: Byrne Discretionary Grant Program
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: San Diego County, District Attorney
  Address of Requesting Entity: 330 West Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101
  Description of Request: I secured $200,000 for the San Diego County 
District Attorney's Gang and Drug Crime Investigation and Prosecution 
unit. This proposal for $200,000 is consistent with the statutory 
purpose and goals of the Byrne Discretionary Grant Program. 
Investigation and prosecution of drug and gang-related crime in the 
District Attorney's Office is manpower-intensive. A substantial number 
of cases brought to the office come from Federal law enforcement, often 
due to the inability or unwillingness of the U.S. Attorney's Office to 
take certain cases. Deputy District Attorneys work hand in hand with 
Special Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate 
narcotics trafficking activity, much of which originates in Mexico. 
These investigations, many of which involve technically and legally 
complex wiretaps of extraordinary scope and duration, require an ever-
increasing number of Deputy District Attorneys, as narcotics 
traffickers, and the attorneys they retain for their defense, become 
more sophisticated.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Brian Bilbray
  Bill Number: H.R. 2847, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010
  Account: COPS Technology Grant Program
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: County of San Diego, Sheriff's 
Department
  Address of Requesting Entity: 9621 Ridgehaven Court, San Diego, CA 
92123
  Description of Request: I secured $1,200,000 for the San Diego County 
Sheriff Department's Regional Communications System Upgrade. This 
proposal for $1,200,000 is consistent with the statutory purpose and 
goals of the COPS Technology Discretionary Program. The Sheriff's 
continued vision is to increase and improve data sharing, automate 
officer alerts and notifications, improve disaster preparedness, and 
deliver more intelligence to officers and first-responders. The 
Sheriff's Department, with assistance from Federal and local agencies 
has, over several years, undertaken technology projects targeting this 
vision. These enhancements provide law enforcement with rapid access to 
critical information and knowledge with less human intervention 
producing quicker results with greater accuracy. This phase of the 
SDLaw Infrastructure Program will expand the search and aggregation of 
intelligence from even more data repositories, add additional business 
logic, further automate data mapping and workflow, further improving 
visualization of the information resulting from this convergence of 
data from State, Local, and Federal systems and now with the inclusion 
of County justice case management systems.

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