{"id":312164,"date":"2026-10-22T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312164\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:24:13","slug":"berks-county-commissioners-approve-agreement-with-city-for-allocation-of-grant-to-help-law-enforcement-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312164\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County Commissioners approve agreement with city for allocation of grant to help law enforcement | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Commissioners voted Thursday to execute a Memorandum of Understanding between the county and the City of Reading for the 2025 and the 2026 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant.<\/p>\n<p>The MOU designates the city to serve as the fiscal agent and agrees to allocate grant funding to Berks County Law Enforcement Departments to support the city and the county.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is a funding source administered by the Bureau of Justice to provide critical federal funding to support law enforcement, crime prevention, courts, corrections, victim services, and public safety initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County and the City of Reading received a joint allocation of $61,088 in 2025 and $49,329 in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Commissioners voted Thursday to execute a Memorandum of Understanding between the county&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,127605,127606,1856,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-312164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-bureau-of-justice","tag-edward-byrne-memorial-justice-assistance-grant","tag-law-enforcement","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}