Deadline: 30-Jan-23
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is pleased to announce the FY 2022 State Criminal Alien Assistance Program to advance work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
OJP’s BJA administers SCAAP. Under SCAAP, OJP is statutorily required to make payments to “states” and “units of local government” that incur certain types of costs due to the “incarceration” of “undocumented criminal aliens” during a specific 12-month reporting period.
Under the FY 2022 program, payments will be made in connection with “undocumented criminal aliens” who had been convicted of at least one felony or two misdemeanors (typically for violations of state or local law) and who were “incarcerated” under the legal authority of the applicant government for at least 4 consecutive days during the “reporting period.”
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $198,998,538
- Award Ceiling: $59,000,000
- Period of Performance Duration: 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants:
- City or township governments
- County governments
- State governments
- Important Note: The online FY 2022 SCAAP application specifically incorporates by reference the eligibility requirements, definitions of terms, and detailed application instructions set out in this document. To assist applicants, this document uses quotation marks to highlight defined terms (e.g., “state,” “unit of local government,” “undocumented criminal alien,” “eligible inmate,” and “correctional purposes”)
- In general, a “state” or “unit of local government” is eligible to apply for a payment under the FY 2022 program if it “incarcerated” individuals in a “correctional facility” during the “reporting period” whom it either (1) knows were “undocumented criminal aliens” or (2) reasonably and in good faith believes were “undocumented criminal aliens.”
- Absent highly unusual circumstances, OJP will not extend the application deadline or permit an applicant government to submit its application after the application deadline. Much as in previous years, promptly after the application deadline, OJP will transmit to DHS the data on “eligible inmates” from all of the applications submitted to JustGrants prior to the application deadline. The volume of “eligible inmates” data transmitted to DHS (and the nature and complexity of the DHS review of those data) is such that it is not possible to transmit supplemental or corrected data to DHS.
- Any application must be completed and submitted by a government official with the legal authority to apply to the FY 2022 program on behalf of the chief executive of the applicant government. This “submitting government official” must be registered in JustGrants in order to complete and submit an application under the FY 2022 program.
- Instructions on how to register in JustGrants and how to access the online application for the FY 2022 program.
- Joint applications by two or more “states” or “units of local government” are not permitted, even if the application names only one state or unit of local government as the applicant. As a rule, an application must not incorporate or report data on either (1) individuals held in custody by the applicant government on behalf of (pursuant to the legal authority of) another state or unit of local government or (2) costs associated with individuals held in custody on behalf of another state or unit of local government.
- Similarly, a governmental entity that is not itself a “state” or a “unit of local government” (e.g., a regional jail, special jail district, or regional jail authority or board) is not eligible to apply. Rather, each “state” or “unit of local government” that uses the regional facility may include (as part of its own application) data that directly reflect its own use of the facility.
For more information, visit OJP.