Title: U.S. Attorney Thornburgh, Chairman of a Task Force on Youth Problems for the Heath and Welfare Association of Allegheny County, spoke to an annual meeting of the Allegheny County Camp Fire Girls, Pittsburgh

Publication Info: February 9, 1972

Title: Allegheny County Regional Council of the PA Crime Commission met to further move forward plans for the infusion of federally available funds into upgrading the entire criminal justice system in Allegheny County.

Publication Info: May, 1969

Title: Plans to permit Allegheny County criminal justice agencies to participate fully in federal funds to be made available under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 are being accelerated.

Publication Info: May 24, 1969

Title: Allegheny County Regional Planning Council for the Pennsylvania Crime Commission was appointed by the Governor and has been assigned the performance of three basic tasks.

Publication Info: November 20, 1969

Title: Thornburgh described the allocation of nearly $2 million in Federal funds for efforts to upgrade the criminal justice system in Allegheny County during fiscal, 1970.

Publication Info: January 23, 1970

Title: Thornburgh announced that the Council would soon undertake a series of public hearings with respect to the Allegheny County criminal justice system.

Publication Info: January 24, 1970

Title: On April 16, 1970 the Allegheny Regional Planning Council of the PA Crime Commission will present federal grants to those agencies whose applications were approved by the PA Crime Commission on December 19, 1969.

Publication Info: April 8, 1970

Title: PA Attorney General William C. Sennett, Chairman of the PA Crime Commission and U.S. Attorney Richard L. Thornburgh, Chairman of the Allegheny Regional Planning Council for the Commission announced additional appointments to the Planning Council.

Publication Info: April 11, 1970

Title: Checks presented to Allegheny County local government units illustrate the wide scope of needed improvements in our criminal justice system.

Publication Info: April 16, 1970

Title: Massive program aimed at rehabilitation of narcotic addicts in Allegheny County was presented to the PA Crime Commission for approval in Harrisburg by Richard L. Thornburgh and Larry D. Barker.

Publication Info: April 27, 1970

Title: Thornburgh sharply criticized efforts of local Justices of the Peace to overturn the State Supreme Court's ban on jaypees holding public or political office during their terms of office.

Publication Info: May 16, 1970

Title: During its first full year of operation, the Allegheny Regional Planning Council for the PA Crime Commission has taken a "balanced" approach to the upgrading of the County's criminal justice system, said Council Chairman Richard L. Thornburgh.

Publication Info: June 20, 1970

Title: "A shortage of police professionals" was decried by Thornburgh in remarks to graduates of a three-week course for police supervisory personnel at the Penn Hills Borough Municipal Building

Publication Info: July 3, 1970

Title: Thornburgh presented a check for $10,574 to Allegheny County Sheriff Coon, representing the contribution of the Federal Government to the installation of the National Crime Information Center.

Publication Info: October 9, 1970

Title: A thirty-member Task Force was created by the Allegheny Regional Planning Council for the PA Criminal Justice Planning Board to determine the needs of public housing residents within Allegheny County as they relate to the criminal justice system.

Publication Info: October 17, 1970

Title: Thornburgh announced the presentation of checks totaling $1,107 representing the Federal contribution to four Upper Allegheny Valley communities for the purchase of breathalyzer equipment and the training of police department personnel.

Publication Info: October 21, 1970

Title: Thornburgh announced the award of a check representing the first payment on a grant of $30,591 for the Federal contribution to a joint communication system for ten North Hills Communities.

Publication Info: October 24, 1970

Title: The second in a series of public forums conducted by the Public Housing Task Force of the Allegheny County Regional Crime Council will be held on November 9, 1970.

Publication Info: November 7, 1970

Title: Thornburgh presented a check of $9,500 to Pittsburgh Public Safety Director John H. Bingler, Jr. as the first installment of a $15,000 grant towards creating the position of Assistant to the Director for Management in the Department of Public Safety

Publication Info: November 11, 1970

Title: Thornburgh called for increased emphasis on correctional efforts within the criminal justice system in remarks addressed to the Southwest Area Council of the PA Association on Probation, Parole, and Correction.

Publication Info: December 11, 1970

Title: A $2,204,085 two-year proposal seeking funding under the Federal Safe Streets Act for treatment and rehabilitation of narcotics addicts and drug abusers in Allegheny County was forwarded to the PA Criminal Justice Planning Board.

Publication Info: December 14, 1970

Title: The long-awaited countywide integrated police communications system took another step towards realization today with the funding of two more joint networks under the Federal Safe Streets Act.

Publication Info: January 21, 1971

Title: Allegheny County's Criminal Justice System requires a "massive overhaul" or it will remain rooted in the nineteenth century: Thornburgh addresses "Youth and Government Conference"

Publication Info: February 20, 1971

Title: The long-awaited countywide integrated police communications system took another step towards realization last week with the approval of funding under the Federal Safe Streets Act of an additional joint local network

Publication Info: March 22, 1971

Title: The Allegheny Regional Planning Council for the Governor's Justice Commission announced the appointment of Claire Brandler Walker of Pittsburgh to serve as Planning Director of a five-member Planning Unit.

Publication Info: March 23, 1971