Deadline: 8 June 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding for Innovative Prosecution Solutions for Combating Violent Crime.
This program furthers the Department’s mission by assisting prosecutors to develop effective strategies to combat and prosecute violent crime.
The purpose of the Innovative Prosecution Solutions (IPS) for Combating Violent Crime Program is to provide state, local, and tribal prosecutors with resources to reduce crime and increase public safety.
The program encourages prosecutors and agencies to use data in the development of their strategies and programs and to develop effective, economical, and innovative responses to crime within their jurisdictions.
Objectives and Deliverables
Required objectives:
- Test, establish, and/or expand programming that enhances prosecutors’ ability to effectively and sustainably prevent and respond to crime, especially violent crime, which could include the hiring of new prosecutors.
- Foster effective, formalized, and consistent collaborations with external agencies, and the communities they serve, to increase public safety.
- Use technology, intelligence, and data in innovative ways that enable prosecutors’ offices to focus resources on the people and places associated with high concentrations of crime and to allow state and local prosecutors’ offices to improve their operations in an effort to more efficiently and effectively aid communities in achieving a reduction in crime.
- Enable prosecutors’ offices to reduce caseloads to manageable levels through office modernization, hiring analytical or support staff, and updating information technology.
Required deliverables:
- Implementation of a program that modernizes prosecutors’ offices and/or improves prosecutors’ ability to effectively and sustainably prevent and respond to crime.
- Written policies or procedures that demonstrate operational changes originated by the project.
Funding Information
- Maximum number of awards BJA expects to make: 18
- Estimated maximum dollar amount for each award: $340,000
- Total amount anticipated to be awarded under this solicitation: $6,000,000
- Period of performance start date: October 1, 2020
- Period of performance duration: 24 months
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible to apply:
- State and local prosecutorial agencies
- Federally recognized Indian tribal governments that perform prosecution functions
- Tribal consortia consisting of two or more federally recognized Indian tribes (including tribal consortia operated as nonprofit organizations) acting as a fiscal agent for one or more prosecutor agencies.
All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326514