The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office released on Wednesday, the findings of an independent audit of the anti-drug and anti-crime program known as COMBAT.A judge ruled that responsibility for ...

Shortly after assuming responsibility for combat in January, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker ordered an outside audit of the program. What is in the report is alarming to many people ...

COMBAT funding went to 95 programs across 424 locations in Jackson County in 2024, according to the program’s end-of-year report. Recipients include the Rose Brooks Center; KC Common Good ...

THE DRUG TREATMENT FACILITY FOR MOMS AND KIDS DEPENDS ON $55,000 EVERY YEAR FROM THE COMBAT SALES TA MATT SAY YOU SPEND $100 ON : SOMETHING IN JACKSON COUNTY, A QUARTER OF THE TAX YOU PAY PAYS FOR ...

DeLaSalle Director Sean Stalling talks about the Block 37, a youth employment program, during a press conference at DeLaSalle Education Center on Wednesday. Jackson County will award almost $1.5 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Reducing violent crime and tackling the opioid epidemic are the two initiatives Jackson County COMBAT, a violence prevention program, has selected for the next year of ...

Recent reporting in The Kansas City Star and elsewhere on the Democratic primary for Jackson County prosecutor ... in supporting COMBAT. A clue COMBAT doesn’t monitor program effectiveness ...

COMBAT's new executive director, hopes the audit will help him usher in some changes to the 30-year-old program. Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway's performance audit of Jackson County ...

Two hours later, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker's office, which took control of the COMBAT program at the behest of the Jackson County Legislature, shot back. White sent a letter to ...

A new audit reveals that Jackson ... Jackson County Jail, even though officials with COMBAT and lawmakers were never told about it. "It does damage the outlook that people have on a program ...

The prosecutor’s office is partnering with Jackson County COMBAT and the AdHoc Group Against Crime on the program. “AdHoc is going to be the organization that sends out a multi-disciplinary ...

However, an extended testimony to the Jackson County Legislature on May 14, Johnson said that her greatest concern about funding delays in the prosecutor’s office centers on the COMBAT program ...