The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) was awarded a $228,407 cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers. The award will support two projects focused on using criminal justice data to measure community violence and assess patterns of disparity in gender-based violence. Specifically, ICJIA will develop new community violence metrics...
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) was awarded a $662,768 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (CFDA 16.827) program. The three-year award runs from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 and will support ICJIA's leadership of the Illinois Justice Counts Implementation Task Force. Key deliverables include identifying justice system metrics that can be immediately...
The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI), a division of the Judiciary Courts of the State of Indiana, was awarded a $149,130 two-year Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (CFDA 16.550). This project seeks to increase public access to Indiana crime data by creating interactive Tableau-based visualizations on the ICJI website, allowing users to explore trends in...
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority received a $2,111,806 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554). The award will fund the installation of new LiveScan machines in approximately 125 Illinois justice system agencies that currently rely on paper-based or outdated technology for criminal history record submissions. This upgrade will improve...
The Iowa Department of Human Rights, Division of Criminal & Juvenile Justice Planning was awarded a $225,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers federal grant program. The award period is January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. Under this cooperative agreement, the Division of Criminal & Juvenile Justice Planning will serve as the...
The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) has been awarded a $194,711 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (CFDA 16.550). The grant will fund two key projects: Under the core capacity area, DCJS will expand the availability of recidivism data by matching cohorts of individuals released pretrial, sentenced to jail, and given conditional discharge to...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $224,559, was provided by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics through the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (CFDA 16.550). The award supports two projects by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) to enhance the state's crime data analysis and reporting capabilities: A core-capacity project to update the Alabama Crime in Alabama website with new data...
This federal Formula Grant award of $5,427,421.00 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program (CFDA 16.738) will support a range of criminal justice initiatives in the state of Illinois. The grantee, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA), will use the funds to enhance law enforcement capabilities, improve public safety, and address various aspects of the criminal justice system through activities such as...
The Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded a $152,210 Cooperative Agreement to the Executive Office of the State of Maryland, Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (CFDA 16.550). The award will fund four projects over a two-year period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025: A police training, recruitment, and accountability project to collect, analyze, and report on data from Maryland law...
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority received a $6,931,195 block grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance to support a variety of criminal justice initiatives under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (CFDA 16.738) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. As is typical for the JAG Program, funds can be used flexibly for personnel, equipment, training, technology and other needs to prevent and...