The City of Jacksonville was awarded a $125,000 Project Grant under the Department of Justice's Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) with an award date of October 1, 2024 and a performance period through September 30, 2029. This grant funding is intended to support the City of Jacksonville's law enforcement agency in developing and implementing community policing strategies. Key goals of the grant include enhancing public safety through collaborative...
The City of Jacksonville, NC was awarded a $125,000 Project Grant under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The grant will fund the city's efforts to enhance community policing capacity and crime prevention through activities such as engagement in community partnerships, implementation of problem-solving projects, personnel and organizational changes supporting...
The City of Jacksonville received a $550,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women under the Justice Systems Response to Families program (CFDA 16.021) to support activities from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. The Justice Systems Response to Families program aims to improve the response of civil and criminal justice systems to families affected by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Specifically, the City of...
The City of Jacksonville, Florida will receive $900,000 through a cooperative agreement awarded by the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Children Exposed to Violence federal grant program (CFDA #16.818). Administered through the Kids Hope Alliance, the funding will support the Project RISE initiative to build family and community capacity to help children exposed to violence in Jacksonville from October 1, 2022 to...
The City of Jacksonville, North Carolina has been awarded a $405,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.753 Congressionally Recommended Awards) to implement a regional Rapid DNA instrument for law enforcement. The purpose is to allow the Jacksonville Police Department and partner agencies to process DNA samples themselves within 90 minutes, generating investigative leads faster than the typical multi-month turnaround time at the state...
This Project Grant award of $500,000 was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) Hiring Program (CFDA 16.710) to the City of Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The grant funding will support the City's efforts to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention initiatives over the project period from October 2024 to September 2029. Key anticipated outcomes include the...
The City of Jacksonville, Florida's Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) received a $134,615 federal Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Assistance Program (CFDA 16.015). The grant funding will allow JSO to expand an existing locative tracking program from 20 to 220 tracking devices, which will assist in serving the city's population of nearly 1 million residents. The program provides locative tracking...
The City of Jacksonville, Florida received a $500,000 Project Grant award under the Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Stalking, or Sexual Assault Program (CFDA 16.736) from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will support a 3-year project providing comprehensive transitional housing and support services to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault,...
The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration awarded the City of Jacksonville, FL a $280,000 Safe Streets and Roads for All (CFDA 20.939) Project Grant. The grant will fund initiatives to improve roadway safety and significantly reduce or eliminate roadway fatalities and serious injuries involving pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation users, motorists, and personal conveyance users in the city. The grant period runs from June 27, 2023 to February 26, 2025. As the...
The City of Jacksonville, Florida was awarded a $250,000 Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CFDA 10.720) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service on December 17, 2024. This Project Grant will support the development and implementation of a comprehensive wildfire protection strategy for the city and surrounding at-risk communities. The funding will be used to conduct wildfire risk assessments, reduce hazardous fuels, establish defensible spaces, and improve community wildfire...