John Rector: Key Accomplishments

Posted on 03 November 2009 by youthtoday

Tenure: 1977–1979
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  • Refocused the JJDPA funds to objectives of the act.
  • Emphasized the advocacy aspects of the act: removal of status offenders from detention; least possible intervention with actual offenders;  and enforcement of  the formula grant contracts that the states had signed in order to receive funds through the act.
  • Took steps to establish OJJDP as a free-standing office its own policy, legal and other support staff, as Congress had specified.
  • Allocated the several years of unexpended  JJDPA funds from the Ford administration as well as funds under the Carter administration.

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