The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices, and correctional agencies performing law enforcement functions to purchase or lease body-worn cameras (BWCs) to establish or expand comprehensive body-worn camera programs with a specific and demonstrated plan to implement this technology to maximize the benefits of BWCs.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/04/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to expand the adoption of body-worn cameras (BWCs) in state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, including correctional agencies that perform law enforcement functions. BJA also seeks to assist agencies that have existing BWC programs expand and refine those programs, and BJA seeks to promote the more effective management, sharing, and integration of digital evidence generated by BWCs within and between criminal justice agencies.
Goals
The goals for Categories 1 and 2 are to support the purchase or lease of BWCs by law enforcement agencies or correctional agencies as well as to ensure that they are deployed as part of a comprehensive body-worn camera program that embodies evidence-based and problem-solving approaches. To achieve this comprehensive program, agencies should allow broad stakeholder input into its development, develop plans to integrate BWC technology within the agency’s operational framework, enhance mutual trust between officers and the community, and promote organizational efficiency.
The goals for Categories 3, 4, and 5 are to promote the documentation, development, and sharing of best practices by law enforcement agencies and prosecutors’ offices that have already deployed BWC programs. Successful applicants will be able to assess, document, and share promising practices and lessons learned, all in a manner that allows replication by other interested agencies.
Objectives
An applicant should address all the objectives that are relevant to their proposed program/project in the Goals, Objectives, Deliverables and Timeline web-based form.
- Establish a working relationship with the training and technical assistance provider to assure that comprehensive and deliberate BWC policies are in place or are developed and implemented during the grant period as part of the BWC program implementation. (Categories 1 and 2).
- Purchase or lease and deploy BWCs in a planned and deliberate manner. (Categories 1 and 2).
- Establish training protocols for officers, supervisors, and administrators on BWC use and policy (Categories 1 and 2).
- Ensure all BWC program policies and practices are consistent with applicable state and local laws.
- Develop a planned and phased approach to implementation that achieves broad support from prosecutors, partners, and other affected criminal justice stakeholders.
- Address access to and sharing of BWC footage by law enforcement agency personnel, prosecutors, other criminal justice stakeholders, and the community.
- Demonstrate a commitment to incorporating the evidentiary value of BWCs and digital evidence into daily administrative and field operations in a manner that promotes improvements in criminal justice outcomes, including improvements in officer and citizen safety, improvement in officer training, and promotion of constitutional policing.
Categories
- Category 1: Sitebased awards to law enforcement agencies (including selfinitiated partnership applications
- Category 2: Sitebased awards to state correctional agencies
- Category 3: Digital evidence management and integration demonstration projects
- Category 4: Optimizing bodyworn camera (BWC) footage in prosecutors’ offices demonstration projects
- Category 5: Using BWC footage for training and constitutional policing demonstration projects
Funding Information
Category 1: Sitebased awards to law enforcement agencies (including selfinitiated partnership applications
- Dollar Amount for Award $2,000,000.00
- Performance Duration (Months) 36
Category 2: Sitebased awards to state correctional agencies
- Dollar Amount for Award $2,000,000.00
- Performance Duration (Months) 36
Category 3: Digital evidence management and integration demonstration projects
- Dollar Amount for Award $1,000,000.00
- Performance Duration (Months) 36
Category 4: Optimizing bodyworn camera (BWC) footage in prosecutors’ offices demonstration projects
- Dollar Amount for Award $1,000,000.00
- Performance Duration (Months) 36
Category 5: Using BWC footage for training and constitutional policing demonstration projects
- Dollar Amount for Award $1,000,000.00
- Performance Duration (Months) 36
Eligible Applicants
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Independent school districts
- County governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- State governments
Additional Information on Eligibility:
State, county, and local law enforcement agencies Correctional agencies that perform law enforcement functions University and college law enforcement agencies at publicly funded institutions Prosecutors’ offices Specialized police forces that are publicly funded (e.g., park police, independent school district police, transit police, or fish and game enforcement agencies) State or regional consortia that support such agencies, including state administering agencies (SAAs)
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
