Post-mortem imaging to find projectiles, fractures and identifying features before or instead of autopsy.
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 · 3 past awards named it
On FEMA’s equipment list (09MY-01-XRAY), but only fundable when it supports a terrorism-preparedness target. Requested through your state.
Through your state
Only inside its two categories: forensic pathology fellowships, or an office accreditation project (up to $100,000).
Apply directly · 3 past awards named it
Only for missing persons and unidentified remains work.
Apply directly · 1 past award named it
Also named in past awards under NIJ Forensic R&D (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.
17 awards to 16 recipients in 13 states named it in their own description. The median award was $297K, for the whole project, not just this item.
“This will be accomplished by purchasing a portable x-ray system and hiring a medicolegal death investigator (mdi) experienced in postmortem radiology procedures, and ready for certification (if no…”
RUTHERFORD, COUNTY OF · Coverdell · FY2025 · $428K
“…bcmes efforts to meet accreditation requirements through investments in medicolegal death investigator (mdi) training and certification, improved access to radiographic equipment, and the development of a safe, functional autopsy suite.”
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM · ME/C Strengthening · FY2025 · $99K
“…hcme to the office; collecting and submitting electronic fingerprints; obtaining antemortem medical and dental records, dental charting, medical imaging using computed tomography with 3-d rendering; collecting DNA samples for analysis and submission to the national missing and unidentified person system and the combi…”
HENNEPIN COUNTY · MUHR · FY2024 · $498K
“…improvement grants program, the county of lehigh seeks to improve the quality of forensic services at the lehigh county coroner's office by adding post-mortem computed tomography (pmct) scan.”
COUNTY OF LEHIGH · Coverdell · FY2024 · $410K
| Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| $428K | RUTHERFORD, COUNTY OFBJA FY25 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement- Competitive Grants Program | |
| $99K | UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEMBJA FY25 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program | |
| $498K | HENNEPIN COUNTYBJA FY24 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program Assistance Listing Number | |
| $410K | COUNTY OF LEHIGHBJA FY24 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program- Competitive | |
| $295K | RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYBJA FY24 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program- Formula | |
| $287K | NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALBJA FY24 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program- Competitive | |
| $180K | TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYNIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship | |
| $500K | WASHINGTON STATE PATROLBJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $455K | CITY OF TULSABJA FY 23 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program - Local Solicitation | |
| $438K | ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDABJA FY 23 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program - Local Solicitation | |
| $300K | BROWARD, COUNTY OFBJA FY 23 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program | |
| $150K | COUNTY OF LOS ANGELESBJA FY 23 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program | |
| $25K | COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZBJA FY 23 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program - Local Solicitation | |
| $263K | STATE POLICE DEPARTMENTBJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive |
Money a state received and passed on to a local agency.
| Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| $258K | TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYUniversity or research institution | Oct 2023 | |
| $34K | WHATCOM COUNTY | Jun 2023 | |
| $97K | KANSAS BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONLaw enforcement agency | Feb 2023 |
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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