09/12/2011
FARGO (AP) — The Department of Justice has awarded North Dakota a $500,000 grant to improve programs designed to capture and prosecute sex offenders who target children in the state.
The North Dakota Attorney General's Office will use the money to fund a team of officers to investigate sex offenders who are in violation of state and federal sex offender registration laws.
U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon said in a statement that he is pleased the initiative will include tribal communities in North Dakota.
The Child Sexual Predator Program awarded $9.3 million in grant money to law enforcement agencies in 13 states this year to improve policing crimes against children.
