Automated fingerprint identification and electronic fingerprint capture.
Equipment for any forensic discipline or medical examiner service. Administrative costs are capped at 10%.
Directly or through your state · 8 past awards named it
Any project in one of JAG’s purpose areas, subject to BJA’s prohibited-expenditures list. Local awards are often small.
Directly or through your state · 5 past awards named it
On FEMA’s equipment list (20CS-01-AFIS), but only fundable when it supports a terrorism-preparedness target. Requested through your state.
Through your state
A research grant: equipment only when the research needs it. Proposals built mainly around buying equipment aren’t eligible.
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Also named in past awards under CGIC (1).
From each program’s funding notice. Programs for other kinds of work aren’t listed, and “ruled out” only appears where the notice says so. Check the current notice before you apply: the rules can change each year.
Your city or county can get this money straight from BJA if it is on this year's JAG allocations list, so check that first. It can pay for staff, equipment, supplies, training and information systems for criminal justice work, and it doesn't go through your state.
Money to improve forensic science and medical examiner or coroner services. Local government labs apply directly to the Bureau of Justice Assistance, state labs apply through their state administering agency, and applications are scored against each other.
Your state's administering agency applies for formula funds that flow down to your lab through your state's own process. Contact your state forensic science improvement coordinator early, since state deadlines typically come before the federal deadline. This is different from competitive funds, which labs apply for directly to the federal government.
14 awards to 11 recipients in 9 states named it in their own description. The median award was $295K, for the whole project, not just this item.
“…workstation with an updatedlatent expert workstation and ten-print printer to maintain compatibility with the miami-dade sheriffs office (mdso) the host automated fingerprint identification system (afis) agency- as it moves to a cloud-based afis.”
CITY OF MIAMI GARDENS POLICE DEPARTMENT · Coverdell · FY2025 · $30K
“…new alternative light source (als) to enhance the quality of recovered latent prints, and to cover a portion of the overtime needed to decrease the backlog of afis cases.”
NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY · Coverdell · FY2024 · $295K
“The automated fingerprint identification system (afis) division is requesting funds to train one latent fingerprint examiner in specific foundational friction ridge training requir…”
COUNTY OF PINELLAS · Coverdell · FY2023 · $375K
“…gpd will implement regular annual maintenance of its cogent automated biometrics identification system (cabis) and automated ballistic identification system (abis).”
GOVERNMENT OF GUAM- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION · Coverdell · FY2023 · $313K
| Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| $30K | CITY OF MIAMI GARDENS POLICE DEPARTMENTBJA FY25 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement- Competitive Grants Program | |
| $295K | NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYBJA FY24 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program- Formula | |
| $375K | COUNTY OF PINELLASBJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive | |
| $313K | GOVERNMENT OF GUAM- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIONBJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $313K | NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYBJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $182K | LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENTBJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive | |
| $22K | CITY OF BROOKHAVENBJA FY 23 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program - Local Solicitation | |
| $17K | CITY OF GRAND RAPIDSBJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive | |
| $700K | EMERGENCY SERVICES AND PUBLIC PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OFBJA FY 22 Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative |
Money a state received and passed on to a local agency.
| Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| $1.5M | HARRIS COUNTY | Jan 2024 | |
| $166K | LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENTLaw enforcement agency | Nov 2023 | |
| $67K | CITY OF SOUTH BEND | Jan 2023 | |
| $200K | CITY OF SOUTH BEND | Jan 2023 | |
| $25K | TOWN OF FOREST CITY | Dec 2022 |
Planned uses from each award’s filed description, not a record of what was bought. Open a row to read the full description. Sources: USAspending.gov and DOJ’s own award list, last three fiscal years and this one. Award Explorer →
FEMA’s Homeland Security grants can only buy items on this list, and only for terrorism preparedness. The full list →
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