Deadline: 24-Jan-23
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is inviting applications for its National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Training and Technical Assistance Program.
OJP is committed to advancing 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.
With this solicitation, BJS seeks to support activities under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP), the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP), and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in fiscal year (FY) 2023.
Goals
- The recipient of funds will deliver technical assistance and training to state, local, and tribal justice agencies, including courts, as needed in the development, management, improvement, acquisition, and integration of their automated criminal history and related information systems.
Objectives
- The recipient of funds must be able to work effectively with individual justice agencies (such as a state record repository implementing a new computerized criminal history system and state adult and juvenile courts developing electronic systems to share relevant court records with) and with multidisciplinary groups of justice agencies to assist them in developing and implementing integrated information systems at state, local, and regional/tribal levels.
Focus Areas
The recipient of funds must have significant demonstrable expertise in the creation, maintenance, and transmission of criminal history record information to and between repositories at the federal, state, and local levels of government. Specifically, the recipient of funds should have demonstrated knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- state and federal criminal history record repositories, including record expungement and sealing practices
- the NICS and criminal history background check processes
- the Interstate Identification Index
- court systems, structure, and records relevant to NICS checks, including criminal, civil, and juvenile court systems
- integration planning and requirements
- the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), Justice Reference Architecture (JRA), and Web Services
- privacy and information quality policy development and implementation.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards $1,500,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) 18
Deliverables
Technical assistance and training provided under this program includes—
- direct on-site visits
- telephone and web services
- regional conferences and workshops
- data collection and publication of criminal history-related surveys and materials.
Eligibility Criteria
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
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For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344541