Past Funding

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.

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.

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.

BJA is seeking applications for funding the law enforcement emergency experienced by the city of Nashville on December 25, 2020.

This opportunity provides funding for law enforcement activities associated with the presidential nominating conventions.

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 solicitation.

BJA is seeking applications to fund a training and technical assistance provider that will provide law enforcement agencies with information and expertise via a dedicated response center.

This program provides funding to states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories that conduct DNA analysis to increase the capacity of publicly funded forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples.

This program will be used to support the standardization of information sharing practices.

This program seeks to improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government.

This program seeks to improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government.

This program provides funds to: (1) prosecute violent crime cold cases and (2) decrease the number of violent crime cold cases awaiting prosecution.

Funding through this program is designed to increase the supply of forensic pathologists and support the enhancement of medicolegal death investigations nationwide.

This program will assist in defraying the costs associated with postconviction case review, evidence location, and DNA testing in violent felony cases (as defined by state law) where the results of such testing might show actual innocence.

This program will fund states and units of local government to implement an evidence management program to inventory, track, and report untested and unsubmitted sexual assault kits.

This program will fund a strategic approach to crime reduction that leverages community knowledge and expertise to build public trust with law enforcement and make neighborhoods safer.

BJA’s STOP School Violence Grant Program is designed to improve school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence.

Funding through this program can be used to enhance or implement outcomes-based contracts with reentry, permanent supportive housing, or recovery housing providers to reduce recidivism, and address the substance use disorders impacting formerly incarcerated people.

The purpose of this program is to support prosecutors’ offices to reduce caseloads, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of prosecutors’ processes and procedures, and provide modern technology to better manage and track cases.

Through this opportunity, BJA is seeking applications to develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs in response to illicit opioids, stimulants, or other substances of abuse.

Through this opportunity, BJA is seeking applications to implement and enhance drug court services, to include coordination, management of drug court participants, and recovery support services.

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 states as described in this solicitation. A separate solicitation will be issued for applications from units of local government.

The Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding (CESF) Program will provide funding to assist eligible states, local units of government, and tribes in preventing, preparing for, and responding to the coronavirus.

Through this opportunity, BJA seeks applicants to participate in NIJ’s legislatively mandated evaluation of the Second Chance Act Grant Program.