Automated screening that flags which toxicology samples need confirmation testing.
Equipment for any forensic discipline or medical examiner service. Administrative costs are capped at 10%.
Directly or through your state · 7 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
A research grant: equipment only when the research needs it. Proposals built mainly around buying equipment aren’t eligible.
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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.
8 awards to 7 recipients in 7 states named it in their own description. The median award was $307K, for the whole project, not just this item.
“The bca proposes to purchase service contracts for two tecan robots and 14 sets of elisa plates used to perform toxicological drug screening.”
PUBLIC SAFETY, MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF · Coverdell · FY2024 · $348K
“To accomplish the scope outlined in the asb standards, many laboratories use a combination of immunoassay and chromatographic screening methods.”
RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE · NIJ Forensic R&D · FY2023 · $319K
“…laboratory, vortex mixers, analytical balances, training for the drug chemistry unit’s masshunter software, validation of the toxicology unit’s 8-channel elisa system, analyst overtime, and calibration of instrumentation for the drug chemistry and toxicology units.”
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WYOMING · Coverdell · FY2022 · $294K
“…between submission of opioid toxicology samples and delivery of results, the coroner’s office will test the quantitative and qualitative accuracy of automated immunoassay technology in the coroner’s office setting.”
COUNTY OF CHARLESTON · Coverdell · FY2022 · $280K
| Details | ||
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| $348K | PUBLIC SAFETY, MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OFBJA FY24 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program- Formula | |
| $367K | PUBLIC SAFETY, MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OFBJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $319K | RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTENIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories | |
| $294K | ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WYOMINGBJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $280K | COUNTY OF CHARLESTONBJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive | |
| $255K | COUNTY OF NIAGARABJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive |
Money a state received and passed on to a local agency.
| Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| $91K | UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES | Oct 2023 | |
| $31K | COUNTY OF SUMMIT | Apr 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 →
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