The improving criminal justice responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grant program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 10461-10465 and implemented through regulations at…

The Attorney General's Office of South Dakota, doing business as the Criminal Justice Center, is receiving a $518,423 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590). This continuation grant will allow the Criminal Justice Center, in partnership with local law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim service providers, to implement activities focused on improving the jurisdiction's criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Key activities will include: 1) Developing a statewide response team to address high-risk intimate partner violence cases, 2) Continuing local coordinated community response teams, 3) Providing ongoing support for criminal justice services in Minnehaha County, and 4) Delivering immigration services through the non-profit partner South Dakota Voices for Peace. The project aims to enhance victim safety, promote offender accountability, and foster collaboration among criminal justice agencies and community organizations across the state of South Dakota.

The improving criminal justice responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking grant program is authorized by 34 U.S.C. 10461-10465 and implemented through regulations at 28 C.F.R. Part 90, subpart d. The program fosters victim safety and offender accountability in cases of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by encouraging state, local, and tribal governments and courts to work collaboratively with community partners to identify problems and share ideas that will result in effectively responding to these crimes. An integral component of this program is the development, revitalization, or enhancement of a coordinated community response that brings together criminal justice agencies, victim services providers, and community-based organizations that respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The grantee, in collaboration with its project partners, will use this continuation award to continue improving the jurisdictions criminal justice system response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Specifically, the project will: 1) implement activities focused on victim safety and offender accountability; 2) participate in mandated OVW training and technical assistance; and 3) work toward sustainability of project activities. Through this continuation grants to improve the criminal justice response project, the attorney generals office of south dakota, in partnership with minnehaha county states attorneys office, pennington county states attorneys office, south dakota voices for peace, the south dakota network against family violence & sexual assault, the lincoln county sheriffs office, minnehaha county sheriffs office, sioux falls police department, and children's home shelter for family safety will implement a project addressing the following purpose areas: 3 and 22. This project will serve the state of south dakota with a focus on minnehaha county. The project will address OVW priority area 2. Specific activities will include: 1) development of a statewide response team to address high-risk cases of intimate partner violence, 2) continuation of local coordinated community response teams, 3) continued support of minnehaha county criminal justice services, and 4) provision of immigration services from south dakota voices for peace.