Description
This page provides access to past funding opportunities from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). Use the search filters below to help you find specific solicitations. From the results, select a solicitation title to view details about the opportunity as well as any resulting awards.
If you are looking for current opportunities available from BJA, see the Available Funding page.
FY 2021 Economic, High-Technology, White Collar, and Internet Crime Prevention National Training and Technical Assistance Program
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This program is designed to enhance the capacities of state, local, territorial, and tribal criminal justice systems to prevent, investigate, and respond to economic, cyber, and high-technology crimes by delivering training and technical assistance to diverse audiences.
FY 2021 Smart Probation: Innovations in Supervision Initiative
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This program provides funding to state, local, and tribal community corrections agencies to improve supervision capacity to prevent recidivism and reduce crime in their jurisdictions.
FY 2021 Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Building System Capacity & Testing Strategies to Reduce Recidivism
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This program provides resources to states, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, or expand effective reentry practices and service delivery systems that address individuals’ needs and reduce recidivism.
FY 2021 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program Training and Technical Assistance Program - Logistics
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This program provides funding to support various training and technical assistance providers and comprehensive strategies in response to the growing addiction crisis that continues to impact our nation’s families and communities.
FY 2021 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence – Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting
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Funding through this program is used to implement an evidence management program to inventory, track, and report untested and unsubmitted sexual assault kits.
FY 2021 Safeguarding Correctional Facilities and Public Safety by Addressing Contraband Cellphones Program
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Funding through this program is used to enhance, test, implement, and evaluate policies, practices, and technology to address and reduce the use of contraband cellphones in correctional facilities.
FY 2021 Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations and Training and Technical Assistance Program
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This program provides support to state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecutors in their investigation and prosecution of cold case murders associated with civil rights violations.
FY 2021 John R. Justice (JRJ) Program
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This program provides student loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to extended service in those roles.
FY 2021 Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for State Prisoners Program
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This program assists states with developing and implementing residential substance abuse treatment programs within state correctional facilities, as well as within local correctional and detention facilities, in which inmates are incarcerated for a period of time sufficient to permit substance abuse treatment.
FY 2021 Implementing the PREA Standards, Protecting Inmates, and Safeguarding Communities
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This program provides funding for projects designed to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and sexual harassment in confinement facilities, and to achieve and maintain compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards.
FY 2021 Second Chance Act Community-Based Reentry Program
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Through this opportunity, BJA is seeking applications to implement or expand on reentry programs that demonstrate strong partnerships with corrections, parole, probation, and other reentry service providers.
FY 2021 Smart Prosecution – Innovative Prosecution Solutions
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The purpose of this program is to provide state, local, and tribal prosecutors with funding to secure resources that will help reduce crime and increase public safety.
FY 2021 Tribal Justice System Infrastructure Training and Technical Assistance Initiative
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This program assists tribes with renovation, expansion, and permanent modular projects to address tribal justice system infrastructure needs.
FY 2021 Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Program
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This program provides civil and criminal legal assistance to low-income individuals, Indian tribes, and tribal justice systems to support the development and enhancement of tribal justice systems and access to those systems.
FY 2021 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Site Based and Training and Technical Assistance Program
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This program supports Wrongful Conviction Review entities providing high quality and efficient post-conviction representation for defendants in post-conviction claims of innocence.
FY 2021 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS)
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This Department of Justice 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 2021 Justice Information Sharing Training and Technical Assistance (JIS TTA) Program
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This program assists state, local, and tribal jurisdictions in reducing crime and improving the functioning of the criminal justice system through more effective information sharing, multiagency collaboration, and implementation of data-driven, evidence-based strategies.
FY 2021 Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program
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This program provides resources to state, local, and federally recognized tribal governments to enhance drug court programs and systems for nonviolent offenders and veterans with addictions, including stimulant and opioid abuse and overdose.
FY 2021 Intellectual Property Enforcement Program: Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy
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This program assists state, local and tribal jurisdictions in preventing and reducing intellectual property theft and related crime.
FY 2021 Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
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This program assists state, local, and tribal efforts to break the cycle of drug addiction and violence by reducing the demand for, use, and illegal trafficking of controlled substances.
FY 2021 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 2021 Invited to Apply - Special Assistant United States Attorney Program to Support the Response to Precipitous Increase in McGirt v. Oklahoma-related cases
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This opportunity will provide funding to Muscogee (Creek) Nation applicants to hire tribal prosecutors to be cross designated as Special Assistant US Attorney’s to address the precipitous increase in Mc Girt v. Oklahoma related cases.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply - Special Assistant United States Attorney Program to Support the Response to Precipitous Increase in McGirt v. Oklahoma-related cases
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This opportunity will provide funding to Cherokee Nation applicants to hire tribal prosecutors to be cross designated as Special Assistant US Attorney’s to address the precipitous increase in Mc Girt v. Oklahoma related cases.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply - Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance (EFLEA) Program
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BJA is seeking applications for funding the law enforcement emergency experienced by the city of Nashville on December 25, 2020.
FY 2021 Invited to Apply – Presidential Nominating Conventions
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This opportunity provides funding for law enforcement activities associated with the presidential nominating conventions.