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HEHS-95-128R 1 (1995-05-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackuq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education and Human Services Division B-260974 May 2, 1995 The Honorable Charles E. Schumer Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Crime Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives Dear Mr. Schumer: We were asked by your office to provide you with information on how funding provided under the Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Act of 1995 (H.R. 728) will be allocated to local governments responsible for providing police, courts, and corrections services. You were concerned that these governments may not receive funding in amounts that reflect their service delivery responsibilities. This letter contains our estimates of the funding amounts for city, county, and township governments in three states (Texas, Ohio, and Florida) based on the grant distribution formula described in H.R. 728. To determine if grants will be targeted to those governments most responsible for delivering the public safety services funded by the act, we compared their projected grant funding to their spending on police, courts, and corrections services. In developing our estimates, we assumed that those governments most responsible for delivering these types of services report much higher spending in these areas than governments with more limited service delivery responsibilities.' Our comparison, as shown in figure 1, suggests an inconsistency between expenditures by local governments for public safety services and the funding they will receive under the act. Our analyses in enclosures 2 through 4 for the three states show that this inconsistency will vary from state to state. 'Using the grant distribution formula described in H.R. 728, we estimated the funding amounts based on data reported in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Part 1, 1991-1993 Violent Crimes Master File. Enclosure 1 provides a description of the grant distribution formula. We obtained data on police, courts, and corrections expenditures for fiscal year 1992 from the Governments Division of the Bureau of the Census. GAO/HEHS-95-128R Law Enforcement Block Grants

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