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Policy: The Role of the
SAA
The State Administering Agency is the executive branch agency
designated by the Governor to accept designated federal criminal justice
funds. Because of this responsibility, these agencies serve as the
primary coordinating body for state and local public safety issue
identification, collaboration, planning, and policy development and
implementation. Ideally the SAA should also assume strategic
planning, training and information sharing responsibilities to assure
that the agency functions as a single source for best criminal justice
practices. As the primary source of criminal justice information,
the SAA is the entity that should be the communicator of these issues to
the state’s legislature and to the state’s members of
Congress. The CEO of the Agency, the State Administering
Authority, must provide the leadership in each of these arenas, and must
provide the expertise and direction to effectively fulfill the duties
imposed by these mandates.
ADOPTED April 26, 2007
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