Video spectral comparators and electrostatic detection devices for examining inks, security features, alterations and indented writing on questioned documents.
Equipment for any forensic discipline or medical examiner service. Administrative costs are capped at 10%.
Directly or through your state
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
A research grant: equipment only when the research needs it. Proposals built mainly around buying equipment aren’t eligible.
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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.
No award on record names this yet. That doesn’t mean it can’t be funded: many awards describe equipment in general terms.
Ask ForensicGrants knows these programs and your agency profile if you’re signed in. It can check a specific purchase against each notice and find similar awards.
