Survey of State Attorney General Offices

Post Date

April 1st 2015

Application Due Date

June 1st 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

BJS-2015-4195

CFDA Number(s)

16.734

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Information and Statistics

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligible applicants are national, regional, state, or local public and private entities, including for-profit and nonprofit organizations, tribal for-profit and tribal nonprofit organizations, faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher education, tribal institutions of higher education, federally recognized Indian tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and units of local government that support initiatives to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $450000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The SSAGO is a new component of BJSмs efforts to collect federal, state, and local data about prosecution and adjudication. The successful applicant will work with BJS to develop three surveys to measure the activities of all state AG offices related to specific topics. The first two surveys will be administered by the award recipient and the resulting data will be provided to BJS. BJS will determine the third topic after the project is awarded. To fulfill these requirements, the successful applicant will gather the information needed to define the key measures for each topic, develop the survey instruments, pretest the instruments with a small sample of state AG offices, prepare the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) package for review and approval, field the first two surveys, and conduct any follow-up activities needed. After completing data collections for each of the first two surveys, the award recipient will provide BJS with a dataset of all responses and its detailed documentation. To help BJS plan for subsequent activities in the SSAGO program, the successful applicant will prepare a report discussing the utility of the data collected and recommending survey content for future iterations beyond the third survey instrument.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Justice

• Office:

  Office of Justice Programs

• Agency Contact:

  Cathy Maston
  Management and Program Analyst
  Phone 2023075992

• Agency Mailing Address:

  General Information

• Agency Email Address:

  cathy.maston@usdoj.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Justice Statistics

• More Information:

  Program Announcement