FY24 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Solicitation Released

The FY24 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative opportunity is now available.

With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to: 

• Provide jurisdictions (including rural and tribal) with resources to address unsubmitted sexual assault kits (SAKs) (including partially tested kits) in their custody that have not been submitted to a forensic laboratory for testing with Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)-eligible DNA methodologies.
• Improve investigations and prosecutions in connection with evidence and cases resulting from the SAK testing process, as well as other violent cold case crimes.
• Provide sites with resources to collect DNA samples from qualifying individuals who should have a sample in CODIS, but from whom a sample has never been collected or submitted to a laboratory for testing, as well as developing/reforming policies for arrestee collections, if legally permissible in the awardee’s jurisdiction.

Learn more about the opportunity and apply by the posted deadlines.