SMART FY25 Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- O-SMART-2025-172307
- Agency
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Office of Justice Programs
Department of Justice
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $400,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Law, Justice and Legal Services
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- State Governments
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Points of contact
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- The SMART Office asksmart@usdoj.gov (202) 514-4689
- Full announcement
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About this opportunity
The SMART FY25 Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program provides federal funding to assist states, territories, and federally recognized tribal governments in developing, enhancing, and maintaining sex offender registration and notification systems in compliance with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, specifically the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART Office), is seeking applicants to improve the tracking, monitoring, and public notification of registered sex offenders across jurisdictions. Key objectives include upgrading registration technologies, improving information sharing, conducting law enforcement training, implementing community awareness programs, and ensuring comprehensive compliance with federal sex offender registration requirements. The application is due by March 3, 2025.
The federal grant awards typically range from $50,000 to $600,000, with most awards falling between $200,000 and $400,000. The awards are three-year project grants, running from October 1 to September 30, with the most recent cycle covering 2024 to 2027. Common recipients include state departments of public safety, state law enforcement agencies, and tribal government entities, with the place of performance typically within the recipient's state or tribal jurisdiction, often at government facilities.
Synopsis
General Purpose of the Funding: The Adam Walsh Act (AWA) Implementation Grant Program assists jurisdictions with developing and enhancing programs designed to implement SORNA. SORNA was enacted to provide a set of comprehensive standards for sex offender registration and notification in the United States. "Jurisdiction" is defined in SORNA as any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the principal U.S. territories, and federally recognized Indian tribes - to the extent provided by 34 U.S.C. § 20911(10) - that have elected to implement SORNA. SORNA requires all states, the District of Columbia, the principal U.S. territories, and participating federally recognized Indian tribes to maintain a sex offender registry and sex offenders to register and maintain a current registration in each jurisdiction where the individual lives, works, or goes to school. SORNA also sets forth requirements regarding what jurisdictions must include in their sex offender registries, what information sex offenders and sex offender registries must provide, requires jurisdictions to participate in the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW.gov) and exchange interjurisdictional information, and offenders must provide advance notice when traveling internationally. For more information about SORNA's requirements, applicants should review the National Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification, the Supplemental Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification, the Supplemental Guidelines for Juvenile Registration Under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, and Attorney General Rules. These, and other guidance documents, are available on the SMART Office website (SMART.gov). Applicants should refer to the Application Contents, Submission Requirements, and Deadlines: Budget Detail Form for information on allowable and unallowable costs that may inform the development of their project design.
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