With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support the purchase and lease of body-worn cameras (BWCs) by publicly funded law enforcement and corrections agencies as part of comprehensive BWC programs guided by sound policy and broad stakeholder input.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/15/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The overall goals of the BWCPIP grant program are to increase the number of law enforcement agencies and allied criminal justice partitioners that deploy BWC technology and enhance the capacity of agencies to use BWCs and associated digital evidence to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and fairness of agencies deploying this technology. In collaboration with the TTA provider, BJA has leveraged the experiences of grantees to develop a community of practices among grantees, promote better understanding of the dynamic and evolving BWC ecosystem, and help both grantees and other stakeholder navigate BWC deployment in a complex environment.
Objectives
- Create and maintain a community of practice through which FY24 grantees can obtain necessary TTA, learn from peer agencies, and better leverage BWC technology, policy, practices, and digital evidence to improve justice outcomes.
- Provide and maintain a TTA website that will serve as a platform for delivering the above listed objectives.
- Develop and disseminate knowledge products that support the objective above, including webinars, training sessions, issues briefs, regional meetings, and listening sessions.
- Create and maintain a comprehensive toolkit containing up to date BWC and digital evidence management resources to support BWCPIP grantees and the wider group of stakeholders involved and affected by BWC deployment.
- Work collaboratively with external criminal justice stakeholder groups to fully understand what resources, concerns, and initiatives they have with respect to BWCs and related digital evidence management issues. These groups include agencies such as the International Association of Chief of Police (IACP), National Sheriffs Association (NSA), the Small and Rural Law Enforcement Executives Association (SRLEEA), the National Association of District Attorneys (NDAA), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and Defense Research Institute (DRI).
- Work collaboratively with other federal and state government agencies to assess BWC technology development and needs. Federal agencies include the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). State agencies include State Administrating Authorities (SAAs), state attorney generals’ offices, or other state agencies with significant investments in BWC technology and programs. The following deliverables are anticipated by BJA based on the funding of BWCPIP site-based grantees.
For Categories 1 and 2, BJA and the TTA provider will accomplish the following:
- Assure that each site-based awardee has a BWC policy in place that is deliberately developed, comprehensive, reflective of broad stakeholder input, and compliant with any state guidelines or laws pertaining to BWCs.
- Assessment of policy components and trends across BWCPIP funded sites.
- An assortment of knowledge products including webinar, listening sessions, position papers, and research reports that are reflective of grantee efforts and that are reliant on grantee input and collaboration.
For Categories 3, 4, and 5 BJA and the TTA provider will accomplish the following:
- An assessment of each awardees’ project narrative, goals, and objectives that will serve to identify the TTA needs of individual agencies.
- An assessment of common concerns, challenges, and operational requirements across sites with each category and any similar elements that occurs across these categories.
- An assortment of knowledge products including webinars, listening sessions, position papers, and research reports that are reflective of grantee efforts and that are reliant on grantee input and collaboration.
- A compilation of lessons learned based on the activities and deliverables, including a final published report targeted to agencies looking to replicate and adapt similar programs.
Funding Information
- Category 1 – Site-based Awards to Law Enforcement Agencies (including self-initiated partnership applications): $2,000,000
- Project Period: 36 months
- Category 2 – Site-based Awards to State Correctional Agencies: $2,000,000
- Project Period: 36 months
- Category 3 – Digital Evidence Management and Integration Demonstration Projects: $1,000,000
- Project Period: 36 months
- Category 4 – Optimizing Body-worn Camera (BWC) Footage in Prosecutors’ Offices Demonstration Projects: $1,000,000
- Project Period: 36 months
- Category 5 – Using BWC Footage for Training and Constitutional Policing Demonstration Projects: $1,000,000
- Project Period: 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Public– and State-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Independent school districts
- Any authorized agency or consortium that acts as in an instrumental capacity to assist law enforcement agencies perform law enforcement functions, including regional or state level authorities.
- Units of local government
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, “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.
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