Cooperative Agreement 15PBJA21GK03615EMME

The Bureau of Justice Assistance, under the Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program (CFDA 16.031), awarded a $1,000,000 project grant to the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office on October 1, 2024. The grant supports the office's "New Orleans Emmett Till Project, Undoing Jim Crow Cold Cases Initiative" to identify, research, and catalog cold case civil rights homicides, including those involving LGBTQ+ victims. Key activities include collaborating with the New Orleans...

The City of Tulsa Police Department was awarded a $1,075,000 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program (CFDA 16.031) to pursue forensic genetic genealogy identifications for potential victims exhumed from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The funding will support genetic genealogy analysis of remains exhumed in 2022, with the goal of producing genetic genealogy profiles to identify...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program (CFDA 16.031) to the Office of the Attorney General of Washington State. This funding will allow the Attorney General's Office to work with Washington State tribes to research, identify, and create an inventory of pre-1980 cold cases involving Indigenous victims with potential civil rights violations. Key activities include: Identifying cold...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement to Research Triangle Institute International (RTI) to build and administer the Coordinated Hate Crimes Resource Center (CHCRC). The CHCRC will serve as a hub for resources, training, and education to support practitioners in preventing and responding to hate crimes across local, state, federal, and tribal jurisdictions. Through this project, RTI and its subrecipient partners, including the Eradicate Hate Global...

The Texas Attorney General's Office received a $533,200 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the DNA Backlog Reduction Program (CFDA 16.741) to support the state's Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit. The grant will provide additional resources to effectively investigate unsolved homicides referred to the unit from agencies across Texas, leading to an increase in the capacity of local departments to solve and prosecute violent crimes. Since 2021, the Cold Case and...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $361,491 Project Grant under the Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice program (CFDA 16.047) to MN8 to create the Intergenerational Response to Hate Project. The project aims to utilize community assessment, relationship-building, training, data collection, and advocacy to support survivors, increase reporting of hate crimes/bias incidents, and develop a replicable model for culturally and linguistically specific communities in the...

This $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance will support the development of an innovative training program and national initiative to promote fair and equitable police practices. Over 24 months, the University of Cincinnati will create training curriculum and train-the-trainer materials on connecting law enforcement with minority communities to enhance trust and perceptions of fairness. A key component is a...

The Dekalb County District Attorney's Office in Decatur, Georgia will receive $496,045 from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program (CFDA 16.050) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding will support cataloging, investigating, and reporting on 27 unidentified human remains stored at or buried by the Dekalb County Medical Examiner's Office dating back to 1987. A forensic anthropologist will conduct...

The U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded a $3,120,400 Cooperative Agreement to Full Circle Training Solutions, LLC to implement a rapid deployment model to transition approximately 6,000 active law enforcement agencies (LEAs) to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) for the Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer NO HATE Act (CFDA 16.048) program. The goal is to increase the reporting of hate crimes and general crime data nationwide by providing technical...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance has awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the City of Memphis, Tennessee under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Education, Investigation and Prosecution Program (CFDA 16.040). The purpose of the grant is to implement the Bias Crime Assessment Tool (BCAT) screening protocol to build a reliable process for identifying, reporting, investigating, and tracking bias-motivated crimes in Memphis. Key activities include: Victim specialists conducting BCAT...