Deadline: 28 April 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding under the Gulf States Law Enforcement Technology Initiative to provide technology and resources to Gulf State law enforcement agencies to increase information sharing on both a local and regional basis.
The BJA Gulf States Law Enforcement Technology Initiative provides resources and law enforcement technology to law enforcement jurisdictions within the five Gulf States – Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas – to enhance information and intelligence sharing among them in order to reduce crime and drug trafficking.
The Gulf States Law Enforcement Technology Initiative will select a single local government agency with the capacity to develop local law enforcement projects designed to gather, analyze, and disseminate information critical to investigating, reporting, and responding to crimes and suspicious activity within its jurisdiction.
Through the initiative, the successful local law enforcement agency will be able to deploy or sustain a project within their jurisdiction, and to work in conjunction with adjacent jurisdictions where necessary. As a result, it will enhance information and intelligence sharing between local law enforcement agencies, fusion centers, and federal and state agencies.
Objectives and Deliverables
- Objective: Improve information and intelligence sharing with adjacent jurisdictions and those throughout the Gulf Shore states.
- Deliverable: Improve/enhance suspicious activity reporting, analytical products, interactions with real-time crime center (RTCC) or intelligence centers, fusion centers, and other law enforcement sharing systems including the Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) and FBI’s Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP).
- Deliverable: Improved communications, cooperation, collaboration, and information sharing, including sharing data on current crime trends, analysis of intelligence, and information/intelligence-sharing methods surrounding crime trends and issues that may be unique to the Gulf States.
- Objective: Improved law enforcement components and increased participation in this project.
- Deliverable: Document existing resources currently available to the jurisdiction(s) within the application area and how they are strategically aligned to support this new initiative. These resources should assist with information sharing and encourage agency interactions in solving crimes. The successful applicant must also document all successful participation projects for possible replication and/or case study.
- Objective: Ensure technology is responsibly deployed and maintained properly.
- Deliverable: Policies and procedures regarding information sharing, technology and analysis are developed with regard to local, federal and state laws to protect and secure data and the privacy of individuals.
- Objective: Utilize technology, lessons learned, and promising practices from BJA FY19 Gulf States Law Enforcement Technology Initiative awards.
- Deliverable: Review the projects awarded in FY19 under the BJA Gulf States Law Enforcement Technology Initiative to see if what is being proposed in FY20 can benefit from what is already in place by another grantee. Sharing information and intelligence with existing projects/initiatives should be encouraged.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $2,700,000
- Period of performance start date October 1, 2020
- Period of performance duration 24 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants are limited to those in the Gulf States of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
- The following entities are eligible to apply:
- local government entities, including local law enforcement entities
- tribal law enforcement agencies, or governmental non-law enforcement agencies acting as their fiscal agents
- federally recognized Indian tribal governments that perform law enforcement functions
- tribal consortia consisting of two or more federally recognized Indian tribes (including tribal consortia operated as nonprofit organizations) acting as fiscal agent for one or more tribal law enforcement agencies
- Applications must focus on a process to share information with local law enforcement entities, tribal law enforcement agencies, or governmental non-law enforcement agencies to enhance information and intelligence sharing in order to reduce crime and drug trafficking.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=324961