Federal Law Justice and Legal Services Grants

This grant provides funding to local governments and nonprofits for technologies and programs that help locate individuals with dementia or developmental disabilities who are at risk of wandering, enhancing public safety and community support.

This program seeks to strengthen citizen trust in Kenya's electoral processes by supporting the government, civil society, and other stakeholders in ensuring free, fair, and peaceful elections during the 2027 electoral cycle.

This funding opportunity is designed to support the National Children’s Alliance in strengthening local Children’s Advocacy Centers across the country to improve responses to child abuse through enhanced services and resources.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to nonprofit organizations focused on improving the legal processes and outcomes of Mexican law enforcement and prosecutorial bodies through enhanced training and capacity building.

This funding opportunity provides financial support exclusively to the Government of the District of Columbia for enhancing law enforcement surveillance technology to improve public safety and combat crime.

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office, https://cops.usdoj.gov) is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding for the FY24 Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement Support for Law Enforcement Agencies program. The goal of this solicitation is to promote safe outcomes during police encounters with persons in crisis through relevant training. Awards under this solicitation will be made to law enforcement agencies seeking to implement training and related supports on this topic. Training is supported for law enforcement officers, support personnel employed by law enforcement agencies, and mental health professionals working on crisis intervention teams as employees of a law enforcement agency or under a legal agreement with a law enforcement agency.

With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks applications for funding to support the activities of the National Center for Missing Exploited Children Program. The purpose of the National Resource Center and Clearinghouse, operated by NCMEC, a nonprofit organization founded in 1984, is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; find missing children; and provide technical assistance/training to victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

Overview: The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to increase the effectiveness of investigation and prosecution of public corruption crimes. This project will increase accountability and improve the handling of public corruption cases by both investigators and prosecutors through concurrent training and cooperation. This project will have three key components: Objective 1: Training and capacity building Training and building capacity of anti-corruption investigators and prosecutors. Objective 2: Institutional support Providing institutional support including policy level changes and technological advancements to strengthen accountability and social inclusion mechanisms. Objective 3: Awareness Raising Raising public awareness of project initiatives to improve citizens confidence in public service delivery so they are encouraged to report corruption cases. The project will build capacity of investigators and prosecutors to handle public corruption cases both by training and mentoring a cadre of master trainers and by directly training investigators and prosecutors. The specific objectives are to increase the number of appropriate public corruption charges by law enforcement, improve the effective prosecution of public corruption cases, develop policies to encourage citizens to file complaints, and raise citizens awareness and confidence in public service delivery mechanisms. This call for proposals is intended to scale up existing work in Balochistan and expand it to benefit anti-corruption establishments in Sindh, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to: 1. Train investigators and prosecutors to prosecute corruption cases. 2. Provide institutional support to design effective policies that encourage transparency, accountability, and the use of modern technological tools to invest

This funding opportunity provides financial support for training facilitators who conduct victim-offender dialogues, aimed at improving post-conviction victim services and promoting restorative justice.

This program provides funding to state and local governments with accredited crime laboratories to improve their DNA analysis capabilities, reduce case backlogs, and enhance public safety through the use of advanced DNA technology.

This grant provides funding to state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies to enhance their ability to investigate and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals, while partnering with victim service providers to improve support for victims.

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office, https://cops.usdoj.gov) is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding for the FY24 Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement Curriculum Integration for Law Enforcement Academies and State-Level Training Commissions program. The goal of this solicitation is to promote safe outcomes during police encounters with persons in crisis through the integration of de-escalation and crisis response training into the curriculum of law enforcement academies and state-level training commissions.

This program is authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Pub. L. No. 117-328. The Expanding Sexual Assault Victim Services on Campus Pilot Program (hereafter referred to as Campus Victim Services Pilot) supports institutions of higher education to improve victim services on campus by expanding access to holistic sexual assault services on college campuses and creating a promising practice guide for higher education institutions that wish to expand their sexual assault services and advocacy. Campus sexual assault victim services need to be survivor-centered, comprehensive, culturally relevant, flexible, and accessible for all survivors of sexual assault. Therefore, collaborative relationships between campus and community-based victim service providers are critical to ensure accessibility to services.

This grant provides funding to state and local courts, national nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions to support innovative projects that improve the administration of justice in state courts across the country.

This competition provides funding to community organizations, governments, and academic institutions to develop innovative solutions that improve access to legal services for rural residents facing significant barriers to justice.

This grant provides funding to nonprofit organizations and individuals to enhance the safety and capacity of journalists in Costa Rica who report on organized crime.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) invites applicants who received an official request from BJA to apply for funding to continue work on a specific prior grant award. This correspondence would have been sent to you with instructions to apply to this solicitation. All programs will follow guidelines detailed in the original solicitation under which funding was provided. The scope, purpose, award amount, and performance period of the new project will be substantially the same as the previous one.

This is a Request for Information (RFI) issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. Respondents are advised that the Army Research Lab (ARL) is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted under this RFI.Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. ARL will not provide reimbursement for costs incurred in responding to this RFI. It is the respondent's responsibility to ensure that the submitted material has been approved for public release by the information owner.The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI or to otherwise pay for the information solicited, nor is the Government obligated to issue a solicitation based on responses received. Neither proprietary nor classified concepts or information should be included in the submittal.The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is seeking information on interdisciplinary theories and models for collective influences on human judgment during information processing tasks and prior to collective decision making. This RFI is issued for planning purposes only, and it does not constitute a formal solicitation for proposals or suggest the procurement of any material, data sets, etc. The following sections of this announcement contain details on the specific scientific areas of interest, along with instructions for the submission of responses.Background and Scope:During information processing tasks, the formation of judgments on the utility of information from a wide variety of sources by analysts (working alone or in teams) is influenced by (a) other people in their networks, (b) the available information they consume, (c) potential interactions with virtual agents, and (d) their own internal predispositions based on background, training, and values. These analysts capabilities and performance on such tasks can be expanded and augmented through intelligent systems or information agents leveraging technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs) or through additional information gained from social media and social networking platforms. However, such human-agent teaming approaches can lead to the emergence of new biases and challenges surrounding the reliability of such judgments made to accept/reject each piece of information being processed. These phenomena reside at the conscious and subconscious levels, further expounding the challenges to understand their impact on judgment formation.This RFI seeks to elicit interdisciplinary perspectives on the judgment formation process in the context of analysts being embedded in larger communities and inundated with algorithmically driven information.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for educational programs aimed at training child protection professionals, including social workers, law enforcement, and healthcare providers, to better identify and address child abuse and trauma.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to organizations that deliver specialized training and technical assistance to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies and prosecutors for preventing and addressing terrorism threats.