Technical assistance (TA)

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG), administered by BJA and authorized under Public Law 109-162 (see page 136), is the leading source of federal justice funding to state and local jurisdictions. The JAG Program allows states and units of local government, including tribes, to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own state and local...

The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 established a penalty for jurisdictions that failed to substantially implement the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) by July 27, 2011, and for any year thereafter. See 42 U.S.C. § 16925(a).The Attorney General has delegated the task of determining when a jurisdiction has substantially implemented SORNA’s requirements to the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing...

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG), administered by BJA and authorized under Public Law 109-162 (see page 136), is the leading source of federal justice funding to state and local jurisdictions. The JAG Program allows states and units of local government, including tribes, to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own state and local...

Through this initiative the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), aims to target technical assistance to assist states and localities in creating the necessary policy, programmatic and business practice reforms to facilitate an improvement in health-related outcomes among the justice-involved population, reduce recidivism, and maximize the use of available Medicaid resources to better leverage existing state and local dollars currently being expended for reimbursable healthcare costs...

The purpose of the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) National Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program will provide direct assistance to jurisdictions that receive funding through the SAKI program and to provide targeted TTA in support of their initiatives. This direct assistance may include, but is not limited to: - Instruction for law enforcement personnel regarding the benefits and use of forensic evidence, including protocols...

The Anti-Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance for Criminal Justice System Program, administered by BJA, is designed to provide national training to promote collaborative efforts within the criminal justice system and provide support and direct technical assistance to improve the capacity of state and local criminal justice systems to increase their capacity to collaborate on the investigation and prosecution of the crime of Human Trafficking...

The FY 2015 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: State-Level Technical Assistance solicitation seeks technical assistance organizations to assist high-level state policy teams conduct data analysis to understand drivers of incarceration, to formulate policy responses to those drivers, and to design and implement the strategies to reduce incarceration costs and reinvest savings in evidence-based strategies to improve public safety.

BJA is accepting applications to establish new drug courts or enhance existing drug court services, coordination, and offender management and recovery support services. The purpose of the Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program (42 U.S.C. 3797u et seq.) is to provide financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments to develop and implement drug courts...