{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=2787613C-CB59-4C10-8C93-3D91C93251B0", "Manchin and Capito Announce Funding for Local Police Efforts", "2016-10-03", "2016", "2016-10", "Democrat", "House", "WV", "Joe Manchin", "M001183", "www.manchin.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)\u00a0today announced more than $560,000 in federal grants for West Virginia from the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program. These grants will aid police departments in Cameron, Parkersburg, and Roane and Summers Counties.\r\n\u201cOur law enforcement officers throughout West Virginia go above and beyond to protect our communities,\u201d\u00a0Senator Manchin said.\u00a0\u201cThese COPS Hiring Program grants will ensure that police departments in Cameron, Parkersburg, and Roane and Summers Counties have the necessary resources to do their jobs well.\u201d\r\n\u201cCOPS Hiring Program grants help provide our local police forces with the resources they need to keep our communities safe. This funding will help boost law enforcement services including efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, and protect West Virginians in Cameron, Parkersburg, and Roane and Summers Counties,\u201d said Senator Capito.\u00a0\r\nThe COPS Hiring Program provides funds directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and rehire career law enforcement officers, and to increase their community policing and crime prevention efforts.\r\nIndividual grants are listed below:\r\n \r\n$123,263 \u2013 City of Cameron\r\n \r\n \r\n$250,000 \u2013 Parkersburg Police Department\r\n \r\n \r\n$96,710 \u2013 Roane County Sheriff's Department\r\n \r\n \r\n$92,392 \u2013 Summers County Sheriff's Department\r\n \r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=2787613C-CB59-4C10-8C93-3D91C93251B0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1240099556744099, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}