Project Grant 15JCOPS22GG04577PPSE

The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) has been awarded a $292,473 Cooperative Agreement under the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The two-year grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will be used to increase the number of campus police departments enrolled in IACLEA's accreditation program and achieve a...

The Arkansas Association of Chiefs of Police (AACP) and the Arkansas Law Enforcement Accreditation Program (ALEAP) received a $122,354 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will support eligible law enforcement agencies in Arkansas to obtain state accreditation, with the goal of increasing the number of...

The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) received a $126,246 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program (CFDA 16.738). The award period is from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2026. The funding will support IDOC's efforts to enhance security and establish a zero-tolerance culture for sexual abuse and harassment in its correctional facilities. Key initiatives include...

The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) was awarded a $252,492 Formula Grant under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program (CFDA 16.738) by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance. The grant funds will be used by ICJIA to support the statewide rollout, dissemination, and implementation of a new Records Management System (RMS) for the Illinois State Police Sex Offender Registration Unit. Specifically, the grant will cover the...

This $146,447 Formula Grant award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance's PREA Program: Strategic Support for PREA Implementation (CFDA 16.735) will enable the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) to issue subrecipient agreements with the Illinois Department of Corrections and Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. These funds will support activities to help the state's confinement facilities achieve compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards, such as...

The Village of Maywood Police Department was awarded a $621,000 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) to implement the MAPS, JR program. MAPS, JR is designed to improve community attitudes toward police, decrease youth crime and violence, and engage youth through positive interactions and skills-building activities. Developed in...

The Indiana Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) was awarded a $499,941 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will be used to update and enhance ILEA's post-basic law enforcement training curriculum, with a focus on integrating de-escalation skills. The project will develop valid and reliable learning objectives based on a...

The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) received a $140,480 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (CFDA 16.550). The award supports two projects: A core-capacity building project to develop an automated data request, submission, and validation system for collecting and managing criminal justice data. This will include an alert/notification...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has awarded a $4,984,036 five-year Cooperative Agreement to RTI International, in partnership with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), to execute the Law Enforcement Core Statistics (LECS) program under the Special Data Collections and Statistical Studies federal grant program (CFDA 16.734). The overarching goals of this effort are to enumerate and describe variations in U.S. law enforcement agencies through the 2024 Law Enforcement...

The Southern University Law Center received a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.548 Delinquency Prevention Program) to support the Louisiana Juvenile Justice Reform Act Implementation Commission (JJRAIC). The project aims to assist the JJRAIC in significantly improving Louisiana's juvenile justice system and reducing risks to youth safety in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems....