The native village of DOT lake is a federally recognized tribe located in approximately 150 miles southeast of fairbanks, alaska

The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction Implementation program (CFDA 16.025) to the Village of Dot Lake, a federally recognized Indian tribe located in southeast Fairbanks, Alaska. The 60-month grant will support the tribe in exercising special tribal criminal jurisdiction over non-Indian perpetrators of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and related crimes against Native American and Alaska Native victims. Key activities include strengthening the tribal criminal justice system, providing indigent defense counsel, ensuring appropriate jury selection and victim rights, and developing treatment, rehabilitation, and reentry programs. The grant will fund a project director, manager, law enforcement officer, and behavioral health professional to carry out these efforts, as well as revise the tribal constitution, public safety codes, and publish the tribal law and order code.

The DOT lake village tribal court and DOT lake village council will lead this new alaska tribal jurisdiction project. The project partners will engage in activities focused on strengthening the tribal criminal justice system in order to exercise stcj; providing indigent criminal defendants, in stcj proceedings, withlicensed defense counsel; ensuring jurors are summoned, selected, and instructed appropriately; and according victims of covered crimes rights that are similar to the rights of a crime victimconsistent with tribal law and custom. Specific activities include but are not limited to: supporting a project director, project manager, law enforcement officer, and behavioral health professional; revisingthetribal constitution and tribal public safety codes; creating treatment, rehabilitation, and reentry programs and services; providing culturally appropriate services and assistance for victims and their families; developing and publishing the tribal stcj law and order code; planning and implementation of the indigent defense counsel program; ensuring stcj defendants receive medical care while incarcerated; completing the required planning period to engage required and key partners in a planning process and memorandum of understanding development; participating in the inter-tribal technical assistance working group (ITWG) on stcj; participating in on-site and other training and technical assistance opportunities; and seeking attorney general designation under the alaska pilot program prior to using grant funds to support incarceration or prosecution activities. The timing for performance of this award is 60 months.