The Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General is seeking applications for its 2024 Safe Oklahoma Grant Program to provide local law enforcement agencies and sheriff’s offices with additional resources to address violent crime in the state.
Donor Name: Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/21/2023
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
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 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.
Primary Funding Criteria
The Office of Attorney General will consider the following factors when awarding funds through the Safe Oklahoma Grant Program:
- Overall quality of the grant application
- Demonstration of need (violent crime reduction is top priority)
- High historical violent crime rates
Funds made available through the Safe Oklahoma Grant Program shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, other federal, state, and local funds expended to carry out activities relating to daily law enforcement duties. Grant funds are to be used to enhance the budget of the law enforcement agency, not replace any appropriated funds from the local authority.
Grant Period
The term of the grant period is for one year, beginning on the date the awarded agency receives the funding.
Eligibility Criteria
Awards will be made to local law enforcement agencies across Oklahoma, including police and sheriffs’ departments. Cities or counties must be the legal applicant and recipient of funds on behalf of police and sheriffs’ departments. It will be necessary to have an authorized official sign the grant application.
For more information, visit OAG.
