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The County of Fulton, Georgia will receive $575,000 under a Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program (CFDA 16.031) to investigate and prosecute unsolved civil rights-era homicides from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The County will use the funding to hire a victim witness advocate and investigate unsolved homicides and missing persons cases from Fulton County that may involve...

The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office received a $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program (CFDA 16.031). The grant supports the "New Orleans Emmett Till Project, Undoing Jim Crow Cold Cases Initiative (UJCCCI)" to identify, research, and potentially prosecute unsolved civil rights homicides, including those involving LGBTQ+ victims from the 1970s. Key activities...

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). This project, funded under the Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program (CFDA 16.031), aims to develop an online hub that will coordinate resources, training, and education for practitioners working to prevent and respond to hate crimes across local, state, federal, and tribal...

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...

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...

This $888,239 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.050 - Missing and Unidentified Human Remains Program) will support two key initiatives by the California Department of Justice's Missing Persons DNA Program (MPDP): Validation and implementation of the ForenSeq KinTelligence HT assay, which will enable MPDP to perform single nucleotide polymorphism typing and forensic genetic genealogy on unresolved unidentified human...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice under the Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program (CFDA 16.044) funds a two-year research project to examine the forensic accuracy and reliability of three geophysical methods - ground penetrating radar (GPR), electromagnetic conductivity (EM), and magnetometry - in the search for clandestine burials. The project, conducted by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, aims to provide law enforcement agencies with...

The Tarrant County Medical Examiners Office (TCME) received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program (CFDA 16.050). This 3-year grant, commencing on October 1, 2023, will fund initiatives to improve the reporting, transportation, processing, and identification of missing persons and unidentified human remains cases within TCME's jurisdiction of Tarrant, Denton, Johnson, and Parker...