The shoshone-paiute tribes will use AWA funds to support activities necessary to help further its sorna program to the next phase

The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes were awarded a $343,966 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) under the Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program (CFDA 16.750). The grant will support activities necessary to help further the Tribes' Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) program, including ensuring continued compliance, enhancing the sex offender registry for the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, updating SORNA compliance standards, training key community members and staff, providing sexual assault prevention and offender re-education materials, and developing partnerships to increase the program's resources and effectiveness. The award has a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027.

Funds will be used to ensure continued compliance and enhancing the SEX offender registry for the duck valley indian reservation (DVIR) of idaho and nevada; update sorna compliance standards on DVIR to reflect any changes to national standards; continue to train key community members, leaders and staff; provide sexual assault prevention materials to the community and RE-education materials for offenders to reduce recidivism; and develop partnerships off the reservation to increase the programs resources and effectiveness for training, community outreach, policy-development and implementation.