LOS ANGELES : Officials Unveil Outlines of Weed and Seed Program
The Los Angeles version of President Bush’s “Weed and Seed” program was officially unveiled Friday, but officials offered no new details of how the law enforcement and social services program will work.
The specifics of the $19-million program will be worked out by two steering committees and will be discussed at of public hearings, local and federal officials said at a downtown news conference.
The officials confirmed that $1 million will go to police efforts to “weed” criminals out of a nine-square-mile area of South-Central Los Angeles and four square miles of Pico-Union and Koreatown. The remainder will be used for such things as drug rehabilitation and housing in the two areas.
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