American Witness

American Witness, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC, receives federal grant funding exclusively as a sub-recipient under Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance awards administered through the Executive Office of the State of Maryland. The organization operates solely in the sub-recipient role — three federal grants totaling $396 thousand across a three-year span (2022, 2024, 2026) — with no prime contractor or prime grant recipient awards in its footprint.

American Witness delivers victim support and public-safety data technology centered on real-time notification systems and crime data tracking for the city of Baltimore. The three sub-awards track a single capability arc: the December 2022 Baltimore Witness Victim Notification Project provided technology infrastructure and staffing for a real-time case-notification portal serving violent-crime victims, automating victim alerts and restitution tracking. The October 2024 sub-award for Expanding Real Time Information on Violent Crime expanded that notification system to include push notifications on individual violent crime cases, targeting public disengagement with the criminal justice system and increasing engagement with the city's victim support services; funds covered technology development, salaries, and marketing. The January 2026 sub-award for Reducing Domestic Gun Violence Through Improved Data shifts focus to intimate partner violence, layering AI-powered technology and in-person court reporting on protective orders and order violations, delivering real-time data feeds to Baltimore's Domestic Violence High-Risk Team and victim support groups to preempt firearm-related harm among survivors at greatest risk.

All three awards route through Maryland's Executive Office as prime grantee, with American Witness performing implementation in Baltimore. The vendor has no presence on federal contracts, IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs, and no subcontract work outside the grant sub-recipient channel. Federal customer concentration is absolute — all funding from a single source (Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance) through a single state-level intermediary. Activity is sparse but persistent, with awards arriving roughly biennially rather than on a defined annual cycle.