Barcode or RFID systems that track evidence custody from intake to return.
Equipment for any forensic discipline or medical examiner service. Administrative costs are capped at 10%.
Directly or through your state · 6 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
On FEMA’s equipment list (20CS-02-EVID), but only fundable when it supports a terrorism-preparedness target. Requested through your state.
Through your state
Also named in past awards under SAKI (3).
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.
10 awards to 10 recipients in 7 states named it in their own description. The median award was $313K, for the whole project, not just this item.
“To alleviate these issues, an orthogonal chemical analysis of pollen using lipid profiling and DNA barcoding strategies is presented here.”
THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES · NIJ GRF · FY2024 · $120K
“…updated tracking portal allocation will fund the purchase of the checkpoint sexual assault kit tracking module, which will improve functionality of barcoded evidence analysis and statistical tracking (beast) laboratory information management system.”
JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY CABINET · SAKI · FY2023 · $2.5M
“Barcoding technology”
COUNTY OF NIAGARA · Coverdell · FY2023 · $500K
“…support yearly supply purchases for recently updated equipment in the fingerprint section and also would support purchasing additional computers, updating barcode label printers and monitors and printer/scanner system for a new examiner desk set up.”
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE OF SOUTH DAKOTA · Coverdell · FY2023 · $313K
| Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| $120K | THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEESNIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship | |
| $2.5M | JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY CABINETBJA FY 23 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative | |
| $500K | COUNTY OF NIAGARABJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive | |
| $313K | ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE OF SOUTH DAKOTABJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $313K | STATE PATROL NEBRASKABJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $113K | CITY OF BOYNTON BEACHBJA FY 23 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative | |
| $1.2M | EMERGENCY SERVICES AND PUBLIC PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OFBJA FY22 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative | |
| $500K | SEMINOLE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICEBJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive | |
| $278K | EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF KANSASBJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula |
Money a state received and passed on to a local agency.
| Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| $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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