well and one of them is quite important, it s $100 billion for new community and violence initiatives. i met with community violence intervention, and chicago earlier in the summer and i was extremely impressed by the results that they ve had and it was a well controlled study by the university and these things really work quite well. if we could switch gears for just a second, i want to talk about election security and threats that have been going on against election workers and poll workers. i know there was a task force established in june of last year as a result of the rise and threats including death threats. how does the task force plan to
i mean in washington at doj, are there any special procedures that lobbying contacts or maybe who will lobbyists work for before they are given prosecutorial authorities? i m not sure what kind of person you are speaking with. if you are talking about front-line prosecutors there is a background check. everybody unsure here is familiar with the sf 86, and that s true with the main justice. there is no special review for lobbyists that have to be engineers. i don t believe there s a difference. lets ask about political consultants. political consultants are people who get paid to ensure that it candidate wins or loses in an election and a political movement is successful or unsuccessful. there prohibition against hiring political consultants as prosecutors at the department?
intimidation and threats of violence and death being made against elected officials and families. in pennsylvania we saw armed extremists come across state lines to try to disrupt the counting of votes in philadelphia and an election official had to put his children and hiding after death threats were made against him and his family. with the reopening of schools, we saw similar criminal conduct being directed at teachers and school board members with encouraging of and almost a decade, and in grocery stores and baseball fields and courtrooms and school board meetings. sometimes the discussions were passionate, and everyone always ask respected the boundaries, and that was the goal of exchanging information.
mr. bigs. thank you mr. chairman. mr. chairman, mr. garland, facebook has admitted in the letter to the attorney general that it allows people to share information about how to enter a country illegally or request information about how to be smuggled. that criminalizes aiding and appending in the u.s. by illegal aliens. have you sent a letter or issued a memorandum similar to the 10-4-21 memorandum directing apartment resources to be dedicated to investigate the apparent violation of law? i haven t done that. i haven t seen that letter or information that you are talking about but if it was sent to the department i will make sure you are looking at. it is also reported that mark zuckerberg influence the 2020 election. those efforts have been referred to as a private takeover of government operations.
the personal information was being put at risk. can you address how this kind of sweeping intrusion into election and personal data under the guise of an election audit might violate federal election laws? yes. let me just say on the previous point that you made, i don t know if i could give you a quick answer, and we ve had that for quite some time. we have election administrators and at the national association of secretaries of state for every state, and that s what prompted us to establish this task force. and there are provisions of the voting rights acts. and election officials to keep control and custody of voting records and voting equipment which are leading to the last