The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), seeks applications for funding to continue the delivery of training and technical assistance 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 portions of the recently enacted Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/24/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,500,000.00
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
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.
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 (III) 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
Award Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards $1,500,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) for 18
Eligibility Information
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- 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
- Private institutions of higher education
For the purposes of this solicitation, “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.
Notice regarding law enforcement agencies: State, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be eligible for FY 2023 DOJ discretionary grant funding. To become certified, the law enforcement agency must meet two mandatory conditions: (1) the agency’s use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws, and (2) the agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit chokeholds except in situations where use of deadly force is allowed by law. The certification requirement also applies to law enforcement agencies receiving DOJ discretionary grant funding through a subaward.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
