The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to support Justice Counts implementation. Funds will support states to adopt a core set of criminal justice metrics — to collect, analyze, and share data in a timely and consistent manner — so that policymakers have access to actionable data to make policy and budgetary decisions.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/21/2022
Size of the Grant: $4,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) Justice Counts initiative envisions a more fair, effective, and efficient justice system. To do that, policymakers need actionable information — data that are timely, accurate, and consistent — to understand how parts of the system operate and how related policy and financial changes may impact public safety. But data are often stale, submerged, and scattered.
Justice Counts implementation funding will support states to adopt a core set of criminal justice metrics — to collect, analyze, and share data in a timely and consistent manner — so that policymakers have access to actionable data to make policy and budgetary decisions.
Funds will support states to adopt a core set of criminal justice metrics — to collect, analyze, and share data in a timely and consistent manner — so that policymakers have access to actionable data to make policy and budgetary decisions. This program helps state governments improve their capacity to set goals for their criminal justice systems, measure whether they are achieving them, and use results to make data-driven policy decisions and allocate scarce resources effectively.
The goals of the Justice Counts Implementation Program are to spur adoption and use of the Justice Counts metrics across and within states and for leaders within those states to use the resulting information in a timely manner to inform policy and budgetary decisions at the state and national levels.
Objectives
BJA will make up to 15 awards to states in Category 1. States will be expected to:
- Designate an individual in a cabinet or executive staff leadership level with demonstrated experience in collaboration across all three branches.
- Engage leadership from all three branches in a plan to adopt the metrics.
- Adopt the relevant metrics in agencies and localities across the state as critical data to be collected, analyzed, shared, and used to inform budgetary and policy decisions.
- Make the resulting data publicly available online using Justice Counts specifications (open or hosted). Use the Justice Counts tools and participate in TTA throughout the process.
BJA will make one award to a TTA provider in Category 2 to continue to build the Justice Counts infrastructure and momentum, including to:
- Use the hub-and-spoke model to engage all necessary and appropriate subject matter expertise.
- Continuously review the metrics, technology solution to organize states’ data, and related resources for the field and make updates as may be needed.
- Promote the Justice Counts initiative with the goal of increasing uptake.
- Provide structured and ongoing support to grantee states and make available support to the field at large to meet the objectives above, including to:
- Increase states’ knowledge and ability to solve problems and/or modify policies and practices using Justice Counts core metrics.
- Facilitate efforts to broker interagency relationships between branches of government and units of state and local government therein.
- Conduct in-person training, site-based technical assistance, web-based learning, distance learning, and developing, revising, and delivering training curricula.
- Develop and disseminate tools and resources to inform all relevant parties, including support for the technology solutions to organize data.
Solicitation Categories
- Category 1: State Implementation
- Category 2: Training and Technical Assistance for Justice Counts
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $4,000,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Private 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
- Category 1: State governments
- Category 2: Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments) 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 Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education For 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.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
