Section 1906 racial profiling data collection grant (23 C.F.R. § 1300.28; SEC. 1906, PUB

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded the Colorado Department of Transportation $1.15 million on October 1, 2025, under the Incentive Grant Program to Prohibit Racial Profiling (CFDA 20.611), a formula grant supporting collection and maintenance of traffic stop data disaggregated by driver race and ethnicity, evaluation of those results, and programs to reduce the impact of traffic stops on federal-aid highways.

Colorado will use Section 1906 funding to support law enforcement agencies' collection and public maintenance of statistical information on the race and ethnicity of drivers for motor vehicle stops made on public roads except those classified as local or minor rural roads, consistent with 23 C.F.R. § 1300.28(d). The grant encourages Colorado to enact and enforce laws prohibiting racial profiling in traffic law enforcement and sustains countermeasure strategies to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities.

The award obligates $1.15 million for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Denver, Colorado. Funding is apportioned under statutory formula and distributed based on Colorado's approved triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application, which detail problem identification, public participation, performance measures, and countermeasure strategies. Federal reimbursement follows submission of vouchers covering incurred costs; funds remain available for obligation through three years after the final day of the fiscal year of apportionment.

L. 109-59, as amended) ― grant to support collection and maintenance of data on traffic stops, evaluation of the results of that data, and programs to reduce the impact of traffic stops consistent with 23 C.F.R. § 1300.28(d). Section 1906 funding is intended to encourage states to enact and enforce laws that prohibit the use of racial profiling in the enforcement of traffic laws on federal-aid highways, except those classified as local or minor rural roads, and to maintain and allow public inspection of statistical information regarding the race and ethnicity of the driver for each motor vehicle stop in the state. These funds are apportioned using statutory apportionment formula. These funds are provided to the state and territorial highway safety offices based on an approved triennial highway safety plan that details problem identification, public participation and engagement, performance measures, countermeasure strategies for programming funds and an approved annual grant application that details planned projects using identified countermeasure strategies for programming funds to help reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes.