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

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded the State of Nebraska $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 data on traffic stops, evaluation of that data, and programs to reduce the impact of traffic stops consistent with federal racial profiling prohibition standards.

The grant funds activities to encourage Nebraska to maintain and allow public inspection of statistical information on the race and ethnicity of drivers for each motor vehicle stop made on public roads except those classified as local or minor rural roads. The funding supports implementation of approved countermeasure strategies detailed in Nebraska's triennial highway safety plan and annual grant application.

The recipient is the State of Nebraska, with place of performance in Lincoln, Nebraska. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. Funds obligated total $1.15 million and are available until expended. The state qualifies for these funds by either providing official documentation demonstrating it maintains and allows public inspection of traffic stop data by race and ethnicity, or by providing satisfactory assurances that it will undertake activities and projects to maintain and allow such public inspection during the grant fiscal year.

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.