[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 17, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1448]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                        HON. DONALD A. MANZULLO

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 16, 2009

  Mr. MANZULLO. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding the two earmarks I secured as part of H.R. 2847, Commerce, 
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010.
  My first request, totaling $250,000, will come from the Community 
Oriented Policing Services technology account at the Department of 
Justice for the City of Rockford, Illinois to acquire a new Records 
Management System and new crime fighting software for their police 
department to assist them in identifying, deploying, and effectively 
apprehending criminals. A major component of Rockford's crime reduction 
strategy has been to utilize technology to improve productivity and 
deploy resources in the most strategic and efficient manner possible. 
This leveraging of technology will be a force multiplier for the City 
and will help to reduce the crime rate in local neighborhoods. 
Rockford, and the surrounding areas of Winnebago County, has long 
struggled with high per capita crime rates. While crime has recently 
fallen in Rockford, too many people still do not feel safe in their own 
neighborhoods and dare not cross into someone else's part of town. 
Plus, with the decline in the national economy and the local 
unemployment rate in Rockford reaching 14.5 percent, higher crime rates 
may soon remerge. This funding is needed to help the Rockford police 
use modern technology to help them confront the next challenges in law 
enforcement. The entity to receive this funding is the City of Rockford 
located at 425 East State Street in Rockford, Illinois 61104.
  My second request, totaling $250,000, will also come from the 
Community Oriented Policing Services technology account at the 
Department of Justice for the Office of the Sheriff of Winnebago 
County, Illinois to purchase new modern, interoperable mobile radios to 
improve communications among multiple law enforcement agencies in 
several counties along Illinois-Wisconsin border. The radios currently 
in use by the Sheriff's Department operate on older technology that the 
manufacturer no longer supports replacement parts. Having new 
communications equipment will allow their field operations units to 
have direct communications within their agency, as well as other law 
enforcement agencies within Winnebago County and adjoining counties in 
northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. This request will help 
fulfill the Congressional mandate to have communications 
interoperability among first responders. The entity to receive this 
funding is the Office of the Sheriff of Winnebago County located at 650 
West State Street in Rockford, Illinois, 61102.
  Madam Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to thank the Chairman 
of the House Appropriations Committee, Representative David Obey, and 
the Ranking Minority Member, Representative Jerry Lewis, and the 
Chairman of the CJS Appropriations Subcommittee, Representative Alan 
Mollohan, and the Ranking Minority Member, Representative Frank Wolf, 
for working with me in a bipartisan manner to include these two 
critical law enforcement requests in this spending bill.

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