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_ 60 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 60. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 biennium, the Compensation Board shall allocate positions based upon the most recent provisional population estimates available at the time the agency's annual budget is completed. I. Any amount in the program Financial Assistance for Sheriffs' Offices and Regional Jails may be transferred between Items 60 and 61, as needed, to cover any deficits incurred in the programs Financial Assistance for Confinement of Inmates in Local and Regional Facilities, and Financial Assistance for Sheriffs' Offices and Regional Jails. J.1. Subject to appropriations by the General Assembly for this purpose, the Compensation Board shall provide for a Sheriffs' Career Development Program. 2. Following receipt of a sheriff's certification that the minimum requirements of the Sheriffs' Career Development Program have been met, and provided that such certification is submitted by sheriffs as part of their annual budget request to the Compensation Board on or before February 1 of each year, the Compensation Board shall increase the annual salary shown in paragraph A of this Item by the percentage shown herein for a twelve-month period effective the following July 1. a. 9.3 percent increase for all sheriffs who certify their compliance with the established minimum criteria for the Sheriffs' Career Development Program where such criteria includes that a sheriff has achieved certification in a program agreed upon by the Compensation Board and the Virginia Sheriffs' Institute by Virginia Commonwealth University , or, where such criteria include that a sheriff's office seeking accreditation has been assessed and will be considered for accreditation by the accrediting body no later than March 1, and have achieved accreditation by March 1 from the Virginia Law Enforcement Professional Standards Commission, or the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement agencies, or the American Correctional Association. 3. Other constitutional officers' associations may request the General Assembly to include certification in a program agreed upon by the Compensation Board and the officers' associations by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service to the requirements for participation in their respective career development programs. K. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7, Chapter 15, Title 56, Code of Virginia, $8,000,000 the first year and $8,000,000 the second year from the Wireless E-911 Fund is included in this appropriation for local law enforcement dispatchers to offset dispatch center operations and related costs. L. Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 53.1-131 through 53.1 -131.3, Code of Virginia, local and regional jails may charge inmates participating in inmate work programs a reasonable daily amount, not to exceed the actual daily cost, to operate the program. M.1. Included in this appropriation is $2,042,314 the first year and $2,042,314 the second year from the general fund for the Compensation Board to contract for services to be provided by the Virginia Center for Policing Innovation to implement and maintain the interface between all local and regional jails in the Commonwealth and the Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) system, to provide for SAVIN program coordination, and to maintain the interface between SAVIN and the Virginia Sex Offender Registry and provide for automated protective order notifications. All law enforcement agencies receiving general funds pursuant to this item shall provide the data requirements necessary to participate in the SAVIN system. 2. The data collected for purposes of the Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) system may be used to support additional public safety systems authorized by statute or the Appropriation Act. In support of these systems, the data may be used to determine or supplement risk factors, provide notifications, or data-driven information. The Commonwealth of Virginia's Chief Data Officer and the Compensation Board shall be permitted access to, and extraction of, such raw state data provided for these purposes, under terms agreed to by both the vendor collecting data under contract with the Virginia Center for Policing Innovation and the Commonwealth of Virginia's Chief Data Officer. No raw data shall be transferred beyond the SAVIN system except that which is shared with the Commonwealth of Virginia's Chief Data Officer in such mutually agreed upon manner.