BJA FY 14 National Training and Technical Assistance: Smart Prosecution Initiative

Post Date

March 24th 2014

Application Due Date

May 8th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

BJA-2014-3837

CFDA Number(s)

16.825

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Law, Justice and Legal Services

Eligibility Categories

Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)
For-Profit Organizations (Except Small Businesses)
Other

Applicants are limited to for-profit organizations, nonprofit organizations, faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher education, and consortiums with demonstrated experience providing national and local-level training and technical assistance. For-profit organizations must agree to waive any profit or fees for services.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $0 - $450000

Grant Description

The Smart Prosecution Initiative (Pub. L. No. 113-76, 128 Stat. 5, 61) is administered by BJA as part of its рSmart Suiteс of crime-fighting programsяSmart Policing, Smart Supervision, Smart Pretrial, and now, Smart Prosecution. BJA established the first program within this Smart Suite over 4 years ago with the launch of Smart Policing. Smart Policing supports law enforcement agencies in building evidence-based, data-driven law enforcement tactics and strategies that are effective, efficient, and economical. Smart Policing represents a strategic approach that brings more рscienceс into police operations by leveraging innovative applications of analysis, technology, and evidence-based practices. The goal of the Smart Policing Initiative is to improve policing performance and effectiveness while containing costs; an important consideration in todayуs fiscal environment. For more information on Smart Policing, see the programуs fact sheet: www.smartpolicinginitiative.com/sites/all/files/SPI_One_Pager_2013.pdf. Prosecutors are key decisionmakers and policymakers in the criminal justice system. They represent the community, strive to control crime, and ensure that justice prevails. The local prosecutor ensures that justice is done in a fair, effective and efficient manner, and is focused on three goals: 1) to promote the fair, impartial, and expeditious pursuit of justice; 2) to ensure safer communities; and 3) to promote integrity in the prosecution profession and effective coordination in the criminal justice system.1 BJAуs Smart Prosecution Initiative is designed to promote effective data-driven research-based approaches to prosecution and prosecutor-led justice systems innovations and reforms. The Smart Prosecution model will build off of the lessons learned from BJAуs Smart Suite of crime-fighting programs described above. Smart Prosecution seeks to pair an operational, results-focused researcher with a prosecutorуs office to develop data-driven solutions which create effective, efficient, and just prosecution strategies which will ultimately improve public safety. It will provide other valuable resources to equip a prosecutorуs office to access data across various criminal justice and non-criminal justice information systems to improve results for communities. Fighting crime and creating safer communities is enhanced by data-driven, research-based criminal justice models. BJA hopes that the lessons learned will develop a rich body of evidence for use by prosecutors nationally as they seek to work with communities to solve chronic problems and fight violent crime. These concepts will be supported throughout the Smart Prosecution Initiative with the initial group of grantees who will be awarded under a separate FY 2014 competitive grant announcement. This competitive grant announcement specifically requests applications for one national training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to support and build capacity in the field and among those jurisdictions selected to be Smart Prosecution sites. This grant announcement does not solicit applications from individual jurisdictions to fund local smart prosecution programs.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Justice

• Office:

  Office of Justice Programs

• Agency Contact:

  For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800-518-4726 or 606-545-5035, or via e-mail to support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline hours of operation are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except federal holidays.

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Technical Application Support

• Agency Email Address:

  support@grants.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Justice Assistance

• More Information:

  Full Announcement