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Subtopic: Law enforcement

FY 2023 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS)

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This solicitation provides federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety and victimization.

FY 2023 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program

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This program provides funding to state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations, to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based activities or services to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

FY 2023 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

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This opportunity will fund programs that support cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

FY 2023 Second Chance Act Pay for Success Program

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This program provides funding to enhance or implement clinical services and other evidence-based responses to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and address the treatment and recovery needs of people with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders who are currently involved in the criminal justice system or were formerly involved.

FY 2023 Second Chance Act Smart Supervision Program

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This program provides resources to support states and units of local government in planning, implementing, or expanding effective supervision capacity to address individuals’ needs and reduce recidivism.

FY 2023 The Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities

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This program provides funding to law enforcement and other public safety agencies to implement locative technologies that track missing individuals, and it provides funding to such agencies and partnering nonprofit organizations to develop or operate programs to prevent wandering, increase vulnerable individuals’ safety, and facilitate rescues.

FY 2023 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program to Support Law Enforcement Agencies

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This program provides funding to law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices, and correctional agencies performing law enforcement functions to purchase or lease 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 2023 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative

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This program helps to address the issue and impact of unsubmitted sexual assault kits (SAKs) in law enforcement agencies as well as other violent crime cold cases.

FY 2023 Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula Grant Program

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This opportunity supports efforts to bring together federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them.

FY 2023 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA

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This program provides funding to support the prosecution of violent crime cold cases where a DNA profile from a known or unknown suspect has been identified.

FY 2023 Supporting Small, Rural, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agency Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program

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This opportunity will fund an organization to administer a competitive microgrant program to small, rural, and tribal law enforcement agencies seeking to initiate or expand a body-worn camera program and provide customized training and technical assistance to the micrograntees.

FY 2023 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program

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This program provides funding to enable eligible entities to improve the reporting, transportation, processing, and identification of missing persons and unidentified human remains, including migrants.

FY 2023 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program

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This opportunity will support law enforcement–behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and safety as well as responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

FY 2023 Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program

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This program seeks applications for grant funds from state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement law enforcement or corrections crisis response training programs.

FY 2023 National Center on Restorative Justice

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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund an accredited university of higher education or law school to manage and expand the work of the National Center on Restorative Justice.

FY 2023 Smart Policing Initiative Grant Program

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With this solicitation, BJA seeks seeks applications for funding to support innovative and evidence-based policing practices, more effective information sharing, and multiagency collaboration.

FY 2023 Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations and Prosecution Program

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This program provides funding to state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies to support activities and expenses associated with the investigation and prosecution of cold case murders involving civil rights violations.

FY 2023 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program

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This program provides funding to conduct outreach, educate practitioners and the public, enhance victim reporting tools, and investigate and prosecute hate crimes committed on the basis of a victim’s perceived or actual race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability.

Additional Opportunity

Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative
Deadline: March 31, 2023
Through this opportunity, the National Policing Institute and BJA are seeking applications for a federal grant program that supports the development and implementation of problem-solving strategies that specifically address violent crime occurring in and affecting rural populations. Access materials from a solicitation webinar held on February 23, 2023, to learn more about this opportunity.