Justice Assistance Grant

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) allows states and units of local government, including tribes, to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own state and local needs and conditions. Grant funds can be used for state and local initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, and information systems for criminal justice, including for any one or more of the following program areas: 1) law enforcement programs; 2) prosecution and court programs; 3) prevention and education programs; 4) corrections and community corrections programs; 5) drug treatment and enforcement programs; 6) planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs; and 7) crime victim and witness programs (other than compensation).

The grantee will use 2014 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) funds to supplement and replace equipment in the Rapid City Police Department and Pennington County Sheriff's Office. Specific use of funding will be to purchase tasers; radio communications equipment for members of the Joint Special Response Team (SRT); and a forensic light source and crime scene cameras for the evidence section crime lab. NCA/NCF