The shoshone-paiute tribes requests funding to maintain and enhance the operations of its sorna office

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Sex Offender Sentencing Monitoring Apprehending Registering and Tracking awarded $394,363 to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes on March 1, 2026, under the Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program (CFDA 16.750) to maintain and enhance operations of the Tribes' Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) office through February 28, 2029.

The recipient will update SORNA compliance standards to reflect changing national standards, train community members, leaders, and staff on sex offender registration and management, 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 program resources and effectiveness for training, community outreach, policy development, and implementation. Performance occurs in Owyhee, Nevada on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation.

The assistance type is a Project Grant. The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, a federally recognized tribal government located on the Nevada-Idaho border, function primarily as grant recipients delivering community-based services and tribal self-governance programs serving approximately 2,000 tribal members.

The goal of the program is to fill key service gaps, including updating sorna compliance standards to reflect changing 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.