With this solicitation, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks to collect data on persons who died in the custody of federal law enforcement (LE) agencies in FY 24, FY 25, and FY 26, building on BJS’s existing efforts.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 07/02/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Goals
During the 36-month award, funding will support the following BJS goals:
- Develop and maintain a federal LE agency database with up-to-date points of contact for each agency.
- Collect high-quality death in custody data from federal LE agencies.
- Report on the federal deaths in LE custody during FY 24, FY 25, and FY 26.
- Archive the collected data for public use.
Objectives
Funding will support the following objectives:
Survey Management
- Perform routine management activities (e.g., schedule and budget updates) associated with conducting the FDCRP survey.
- Hold regular meetings of assigned staff (i.e., statisticians, survey specialists, programmers) prior to and during the data collection period to discuss schedule, budget, staffing, and other issues related to the FDCRP survey.
Universe Identification and Database Development and Maintenance
- Create and/or update the list of federal LE organizations on an ongoing annual basis with new data provided by FDCRP respondents and other sources. At a minimum, the universe database should be searchable and contain up-to-date contact information, including the name, phone number, and email of the primary POC. The database also should include the current arrest, detainment or incarceration, and firearm authority status for each agency.
Data Collection
- Perform an annual review of any changes to DICRA statutes and consult with BJS to determine any necessary changes to the survey instrument or data collection protocols.
- Develop and/or update the survey instrument for each year of data collection, as necessary.
- Revise and/or develop needed training materials and protocols for all staff assigned to providing survey assistance (e.g., help desk) and/or interviews with respondents (e.g., for nonresponse or data quality follow-up).
- Create and assign case-specific user IDs and passwords for the online survey.
- Operate a help desk (phone and email) throughout the data collection period.
- Develop and execute a planned communications schedule to include prenotifications, survey invitations, reminders (e.g., emails, hard copy mailings), nonresponse calls, and end-of-study notifications throughout the collection period.
- Develop and execute a data quality plan following survey submission.
- Maintain a system for tracking the status of the data collection in real time, allowing BJS to view individual FDCRP records by collection year and generate ad hoc submission status reports. Status variables to maintain include date and mode of submission, scope, eligibility, response rate, and presence of missing items.
- Complete the FY 24, FY 25, and FY 26 FDCRP data collections.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Solicitation: $300,000
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award: $300,000
Period of Performance
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Public- and State-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Other units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a State
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- 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
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Individuals
- Independent school districts
- Units of local government
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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