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Expired Funding Opportunities

This page presents expired funding opportunities from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Use the search filters below to find specific solicitations. Select a solicitation title to see details about the solicitation along with any resulting awards.

FY 2023 Access to Justice Design and Testing Program

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks applications for funding in fiscal year (FY) 2023 to conduct research and testing activities related to the development of new data collections that will measure persons' access to justice for their civil legal needs. This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by expanding statistical infrastructure around justice system accessibility.

FY 2023 Survey of Prison Inmates Research and Development

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks applications for funding to update the Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI) instrument, field test the updated instrument, and prepare a national implementation plan to field the next iteration of the SPI.

FY 2023 Law Enforcement Transition to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to Improve Hate Crime Reporting

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The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics seeks applications to provide funding and technical assistance to local law enforcement agencies to increase and enhance their reporting of crimes in general and hate crimes specifically to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System, as authorized by the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act (34 U.S.C. § 30507). This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by advancing the rule of law, integrity, good government, public safety, and criminal justice through improved police reporting of hate crimes.

FY 2023 Campus Climate Survey

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As part of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022, §1161l-6.

FY 2023 Census of Jails 2024

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks applications for funding to develop a web-based survey to collect 2024 Census of Jails (COJ) data from approximately 2,900 local jails and to process and deliver the data to BJS. This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by gathering critical criminal justice data from local jails and federal detention facilities and providing these data to support innovative strategies to handle the challenges confronting the criminal justice system.

FY 2023 Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities 2024

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This collection is part of the larger BJS portfolio of establishment surveys that inform the nation on the characteristics of adult correctional facilities and persons sentenced to state, federal, and privately operated prisons. BJS's National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS) collects aggregate counts of male and female custody and jurisdiction prison populations on December 31 each year. Through the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP), BJS collects individual-level data on prisoners entering or leaving the custody of state prison systems.

FY 2023 Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2024-27

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The goals of this project are to field the survey instrument and to analyze the data it collects to produce high-quality and accurate statistics and analyses for the 2024 through 2027 iterations of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC). In addition, BJS expects the award recipient to recommend enhancements for the SJIC, cognitively test revised and new questions, and field an addendum to one SJIC collection year based on the survey enhancements.

FY 2023 NICS Act Record Improvement Program

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks applications for funding under the fiscal year (FY) 2023 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP). This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by enhancing the completeness, automation, and transmittal of records to state and federal systems used by the NICS.

FY 2023 Census of Prosecutor Offices

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The CPO will collect basic operational and staffing information from more than 2,330 prosecutor offices in the U.S. Prosecutor offices operate at the county-, district-, or circuit-level. The main purpose of the CPO is to collect key statistics about all prosecutor offices currently operating in the U.S. A secondary purpose of the CPO is to construct and validate a reliable frame for future survey iterations of the National Survey of Prosecutors.

FY 2023 Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) Program, 2023–2026

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) will administer the 2023-2026 Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) program. The goal of fist is to provide national estimates on the total number of firearm purchase applications received and denied pursuant to the Brady Act and relevant state laws. FIST collects counts of firearm transfer applications and permit checks conducted by state and local checking agencies and combines them with the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) transaction data.

FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)

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This program aims to improve the nation's safety and security by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information; and by ensuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and non-criminal justice background check systems.

FY 2023 Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) will conduct the 2023 Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, following the data collection last conducted for 2020. The goal of this collection is to obtain updated information about the staffing, resources, workload, policies, and procedures of all publicly funded forensic crime laboratories in the U.S. The main activities for the project include survey design, frame development and maintenance, administering the census, and delivery of datasets.

FY2023 Survey of Prison Inmates Data Linkage Program

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The Survey of Prison Inmates Data Linkage Program (SPI DLP) is designed to advance and expand BJS's efforts and achievements linking the 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI) self-report data to various administrative records, including criminal history, employment and income, housing, and beneficiary records.

FY 2023 Survey of State Parole Agencies on Reentry Services

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BJS is seeking applications for administering the Survey of State Parole Agencies on Reentry Services (SSPARS). The SSPARS will generate national and state-level statistics on the types of treatment programs, housing and education assistance, and other reentry services received by adults under supervision by the 50 state parole agencies and the District of Columbia.

FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program Supplemental Funding

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This program furthers the DOJ's mission to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal-history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based criminal history background checks. This program was developed to implement Title III, Division B (3) - Appropriations outlined in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (Pub. L. 117-159).

FY 2022 California Law Enforcement Transition to NIBRS—Rapid Deployment Model Project

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The purpose of the project funded through this solicitation is to use the Rapid Deployment Model (RDM) strategy to help three of the largest agencies in the state of California - the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office (LASO) - transition to reporting crime data to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

FY2022 Methodological Research on Measuring Community- and Officer-Initiated Law Enforcement Activity

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This program seeks to evaluate the current state and availability of data sources to measure community-initiated and officer-initiated events, including calls for service, to law enforcement. The work will examine the use of 911-services compared to police dispatch repositories, data pooled by vendors supplying computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems to law enforcement and public safety agencies, and data available on third party vendor sites and through public open data portal(s). The information gathering will also examine any legal constraints impacting access to these data.

FY 2022 Census of Public Defender Offices

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The program seeks support to conduct the 2022 Census of Public Defender Offices (CPDO). BJS has conducted one iteration of data collection with public defender offices and will update that collection with this solicitation. The census will obtain information about the operations, workload, staff size, policies, and procedures of the approximately 1,000 offices that serve as public defender offices across the nation.

FY 2022 State Justice Statistics for Statistical Analysis Centers Technical Assistance Program

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is publishing this notice to announce the Technical Assistance Program to support activities under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (SJS-SAC) in FY 2022. The SJS-SAC program is designed to maintain and enhance each state's capacity to coordinate statistical activities in the state, conduct research on relevant criminal justice issues, and serve as a liaison to help BJS gather data from state agencies.

FY 2022 Census of State Courts

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The Census of State Courts (CSC) is a new collection for the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The CSC is intended to provide a complete census of all state and local courts operational in the United States, and to compile important staffing data and information about the case types heard in state municipal, trial, and appellate courts. This census serves as foundational work to build a universe frame for municipal, limited- and general-jurisdiction, and appellate courts. Thus, this collection will serve as a universe frame for future surveys of state courts.