Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General is currently accepting applications for the 2025 Safe Oklahoma Grant Program.
Donor Name: Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General
State: Oklahoma
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/12/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Established in 2012, The Attorney General’s Safe Oklahoma Grant Program is funded by an annual appropriation from the state legislature. All local law enforcement agencies and sheriff’s offices are eligible for the grant. Grants are made for a one-year period.
The Attorney General’s Safe Oklahoma Grant Program provides local law enforcement agencies and sheriff’s offices with additional resources to address violent crime in the state. The money from the grant helps pay overtime costs for officers, technology upgrades, enhanced analytical capabilities and funds community partnership projects that focus on preventing youth violent crime.
Purpose Areas
To be eligible for a Safe Oklahoma Grant, local law enforcement agencies shall submit proposals to the Office of the Attorney General that focus on decreasing violent crime within their jurisdiction through one of the following priority strategies found at 74 O.S. § 20k(B)(1)-(5), as listed below:
- Focusing on intervention and enforcement through the use of increased staffing resources with overtime funds to target violent crime with evidence-driven approaches. Policing initiatives may include directed patrols, “hot spot” policing, intelligence-led policing, or youth and gang violence interventions [funds cannot be used for new hires or regular salary and benefits];
- Increasing technological capacity to support intervention and enforcement with the purchase of technology for crime prevention and criminal justice problem solving. Technology shall include, but not be limited to, crime-mapping software, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology and smart phone tools;
- Enhancing analytical capacity through the development or expansion of analytical capabilities that focus on crime mapping, analysis of crime trends and developing data-driven strategies that focus on violent crime reduction;
- Engaging with community partners in order to develop partnerships and projects that focus on preventing violent crime in the community. Community partners may include, but are not limited to, public and private service providers, the courts, and probation and parole services. Projects shall include, but are not limited to, programs that focus on drug enforcement efforts, youth violent crime, gang violence, and offender recidivism; and
- Increasing direct services to crime victims through local law enforcement efforts which shall include, but not be limited to, addressing gaps in crime victims’ services by enhancing accessibility to services, increasing awareness of victimization and partnering with local community providers to improve supports and services to victims of crime.
Safe OK Grant Can Help
The grant funds can help local law enforcement agencies to directly target crime hot spots in their communities through strategies like increasing the frequency of patrols in high-crime areas; ability to increase the number of boots on the ground; as well as find innovative ways to increase safety in the communities.
Each law enforcement agency faces unique challenges depending on location. The Safe OK Grant funds steps to making communities safer by helping the law enforcement partners by providing additional resources. These resources could include upgrading antiquated equipment; purchasing new resources; and helping pay overtime costs for officers.
Funding Period
The term of the grant period is January 1, 2025 –December 31, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a Safe Oklahoma Grant, local law enforcement agencies shall submit proposals to the Office of the Attorney General that focus on decreasing the violent crime within their jurisdiction through one of the following priority strategies (a complete list can be found on the grant application):
- Focusing on intervention and enforcement through the use of increased staffing resources with overtime funds (cannot be used for new hires or regular salary and benefits);
- Increasing technological capacity to support intervention;
- Enhancing analytical capacity through development or expansion of capabilities;
- Engaging with community partners in order to develop partnerships;
- Increasing direct services to crime victims.
For more information, visit OOAG.
