Criminal Justice Coordinating Council

Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC), a Georgia state government entity, receives federal grant funding as the state administering agency for Georgia's criminal justice and victim services programs, operating as a prime grant recipient with the Department of Justice as its dominant customer.

CJCC is a subordinate division of the State of Georgia, headquartered in Atlanta at 104 Marietta Street NW, and functions as the executive coordinating body for federal criminal justice funding distribution across Georgia's system. The organization operates almost exclusively as a prime recipient (95% of recent awards), distributing formula grants and project grants to state and local agencies, community-based organizations, and sub-recipients. CJCC does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of grants awarded by the Department of Justice and related agencies.

The Department of Justice dominates CJCC's customer base. The top five customer agencies account for 84% of recent awards, led by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (89 awards), followed by the broader Office of Justice Programs (61 awards), the Office for Victims of Crime (42 awards), the Office on Violence Against Women (30 awards), and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (18 awards). Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $1.29 billion.

CJCC's grant portfolio spans multiple federal programs and purpose areas. Representative prime grants include a $1.416 million Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Title II Formula Grant (CFDA 16.540) from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, effective through June 2030, funding juvenile justice system coordination and diversion programming; a $4.193 million Family Violence Prevention and Services State Grants award (CFDA 93.671) from the Administration for Children and Families through September 2027, distributing shelter and supportive services for domestic violence victims; a $601,810 Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners (RSAT) formula grant (CFDA 16.593) from the Bureau of Justice Assistance through September 2029, supporting substance use disorder treatment in corrections; and a $2.5 million Treatment Court Discretionary Grant (CFDA 16.585) from the Bureau of Justice Assistance through September 2027, enhancing adult drug court capacity statewide. CJCC also administers the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) block grant program, which carries allocations for law enforcement training, drug interdiction, and crime reduction projects, and distributes Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) formula grants for victim compensation and victim assistance services. Recent project grants include a $1 million grant from the Office on Violence Against Women for improving coordinated criminal justice responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and a $7 million grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance for data-driven opioid crisis response and diversion programming across six Georgia localities. CJCC received emergency supplemental grants following the September 2024 Apalachee High School shooting, including victim resiliency center funding and emergency law enforcement assistance grants totaling up to several hundred thousand dollars through September 2027.

Activity has remained steady across recent years, with 18 awards in 2022, 17 in 2023, and 21 in 2024. Twenty-three awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, generating recompete exposure concentrated in the Bureau of Justice Assistance and Office on Violence Against Women grant programs. CJCC serves as the Georgia Statistical Analysis Center (GASAC) through partnership arrangements, conducting policy research using federal grants from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (CFDA 16.550) and supporting cold case sexual assault work and forensic backlog reduction through Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grants (CFDA 16.609) administered in partnership with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

As a sub-recipient, CJCC appears in fewer than five percent of awards, primarily supporting Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) under Department of Human Services prime grants and delivering victim notification services under its own grant programs. CJCC's role is administrative and coordinating rather than direct-service delivery; it allocates federal funds to local agencies, law enforcement, prosecution, courts, corrections, and nonprofit victim services providers throughout Georgia's urban, rural, and suburban communities.