Description
As funding opportunities become available from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), they will be included below. Subscribe to NewsFromBJA to receive funding announcements.
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FY 2021 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement Agencies
Closing Date
This opportunity provides funding to law enforcement agencies seeking to purchase body-worn cameras (BWCs) to establish or expand comprehensive body-worn camera programs with a specific and demonstrated plan to implement this technology to maximize the benefits of BWCs.
FY 2021 Child-friendly Family Visiting Spaces in Jails and Prisons Program
Closing Date
This program will fund projects to construct, renovate, or upgrade child-friendly family visiting spaces in correctional facilities.
FY 2021 Collaborative Approaches toward Preventing and Addressing Hate Crime — Demonstration Projects
Closing Date
This program supports efforts of state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies and their partners in developing comprehensive approaches to address a precipitous increase in hate crimes.
FY 2021 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program
Closing Date
This program provides funding to conduct outreach and offer training on hate crimes, as well as investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply – Continuation of BJA Previously Funded Awards
Closing Date
Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance is inviting applicants who received an official request from BJA to apply for funding to continue work on a specific prior grant award.
FY 2021 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program - Local Solicitation
Closing Date
The JAG Program is the primary provider of federal criminal justice funding to states and units of local government. BJA will award JAG Program funds to eligible units of local government as described in this opportunity.
FY 2021 Internet of Things National Training and Technical Assistance Program
Closing Date
This program will identify up to four TTA providers to identify these types of crimes and provide training on how investigations and prosecution should be handled, as well as on how communities can be made aware of their vulnerability to fall victim to crimes involving the improper use of the Internet of Things (IoT).
FY 2020 State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
Closing Date
Under this program, payments are made to states and units of local government that incur certain types of costs due to incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens during a specific 12-month reporting period.
FY 2021 Collaborative Crisis Response Training Program
Closing Date
This initiative seeks to implement transdisciplinary crisis response training to educate and prepare law enforcement and correctional officers so that they are equipped to appropriately interact with people who have behavioral health conditions or disabilities in the course of completing their job responsibilities.
FY 2021 National Initiatives: Law Enforcement and Prosecution
Closing Date
The purpose of this solicitation is to fund national in-scope training and technical assistance efforts to support law enforcement, prosecution, and analysis within key criminal justice operations.
FY 2021 Preventing School Violence: BJA’s STOP School Violence Program
Closing Date
This program is designed to improve K-12 school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence and ensure a positive school climate.
FY 2021 Visiting Fellows Program
Closing Date
This program brings talent and expertise from the field to BJA to inform policy and practice and create new tools for the field that disseminate knowledge of effective and innovative approaches to priority criminal justice issues.
FY 2021 Restrictive Housing Reform Implementation Assistance Program
Closing Date
BJA seeks a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider and subject matter experts to help state correctional agencies implement changes to their trainings, policies, and practices to reduce their use of restrictive housing.
Additional Opportunity
Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program
Deadline: 8/31/2021
This competitive microgrant solicitation will fund body-worn cameras to law enforcement departments with 50 or fewer full-time sworn personnel, rural agencies, and federally-recognized Tribal agencies.