Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies
The following definitions apply only to the drug enforcement program, as used in sections 21a-274a-1 through 21a-274a-4, inclusive, of these regulations:
(1) "Application" means a request by the state-wide narcotics task force, the department of public safety, the division of criminal justice or a municipality or combination of municipalities for funding under the drug enforcement program submitted on the correct forms and in accordance with the directions issued by the Office of Policy and Management, 450 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06106-1308.
(2) "Crime prevention activities" means one or more activities undertaken by municipalities through neighborhood organizations, including public housing tenant organizations. Such activities may include, but are not limited to programs such as block watches, neighborhood clean-up, community drug education, other reclamation activities, and recreational activities for youths, concentrated on areas with high rates of drug trafficking and crime.
(3) "Drug enforcement program monies" means the sum appropriated to the office of policy and management for that program, and not allocated to the safe neighborhoods program by the secretary of the office of policy and management.
(4) "Drug law enforcement" means any activity of sworn law enforcement officers of local, state or federal governments, the primary purposes of which is to enforce state or federal laws governing the manufacture, cultivation, distribution, sale, use or possession of controlled substances as defined in section 21a-240 (9) of the general statutes and includes community policing activities directed at areas with high rates of drug trafficking.
(5) "Drug law enforcement training" means any training for personnel of any state or local law enforcement agency intended to enhance the agency's drug law enforcement capability, provided such training for local law enforcement personnel shall be approved by the municipal police training council.
(6) "Education training activities" means training for personnel of any private or public elementary or secondary school intended to enhance the school's ability to provide substance abuse prevention education or to respond to substance abuse problems among the school's students, provided such training shall be approved by the state department of education. "Education training activities" may also include non-school based substance abuse prevention education or response training, but funds for such training may not be included for purposes of fulfilling the substance abuse prevention education expenditure requirement of any grant.
(7) "Local drug enforcement task force enhancement program" means a program of allocating additional drug enforcement program monies to those municipalities participating in multi-municipality cooperative police task forces which focus on drug trafficking, and which task forces have been in continuous existence for not less than three years.
(8) "Per capita drug abuse violation rate" means the rate determined by dividing a municipality's total number of drug abuse violations, as reported in the most recent Crime in Connecticut Annual Report published by the Department of Public Safety, by its population, and multiplying the resulting figure by 100,000. Municipalities for which statistics are not available shall be rated at zero. Population figures used shall be the most recent census taken by the United States bureau of census. The rate shall be computed as of the first day of July for each year.
(9) "State-wide narcotics task force" means that organization established by sections 29-176 through 29-179 of the general statutes.
(10) "Substance abuse prevention education" means a course or program of instruction in any private or public elementary or secondary school within an applicant's jurisdiction, and which course or program is in accordance with section 10-19 (a) of the general statutes and, for municipalities receiving funding under the federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, P.L. 103-382, will also complement the program plan submitted to and approved by the state department of education. The term also includes school-based education training activities when approved by the state department of education.
(11) "Summer youth recreation program" means organized recreational activities, operated by or under the auspices of a municipality, primarily for youths who have attained five years of age and who will not have attained nineteen years of age by the thirty-first day of December for the year of the program. The activities shall have the goal of preventing crime and promoting positive development by providing constructive activities for youths who are at high risk of involvement in crime, illegal drugs and gangs. Summer youth recreation programs shall operate only during all or a portion of the period between the day following the last day of the school year for that municipality, and the first day of the next school year.
(12) "Supplanting" means using grant funds in place of local or other state funds currently budgeted for an activity and thereby reducing the expenditure of local or other state funds, or, alternatively, removing local or other state funds from an activity supported by grant funds with the effect that the activity is not increased or enhanced by the full value of the grant funds applied.
(Adopted effective January 31, 1994; Amended April 18, 1996; Amended June 29, 1998; Amended February 24, 2000; Amended June 26, 2001; Amended August 5, 2003)