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SecurityInfoWatch
March 31, 2018
The first is a new program under the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) that will provide grants for training school personnel and students in violence prevention and mental health response, as well as threat assessment programs and anonymous threat reporting systems. This program is provided with aÃâà...
Center For American Progress
March 31, 2018
Administered by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance, JAG is a flexible funding stream allocated to state and local governments based on population and crime rates. DOJ hails the program as a critical resource for jurisdictions to pursue their own public safety priorities, from gun and gangÃâà...
The River City News
March 29, 2018
The Kenton County Detention Center (KCDC) launched its new Overdose Prevention & Pre-Arrest Diversion Project. This project is funded by a three-year, $300,000 grant through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Department of Justice. Over the three-year grant term, the project, led by JasonÃâà...
Longview News-Journal
March 29, 2018
Partners in Prevention Manager Holly Fuller said the team's future with the organization depends on the ability to find funding to replace a lapsed grant from the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance. "ETATT is in a transitional period right now," she said. "The details are still being worked out." Fuller said it'sÃâà...
Warren Tribune Chronicle
March 28, 2018
Communities that apply for the grant must include in the application their bulletproof vest policy, a requirement since 2015, according to the bureau of justice assistance. The penalty for violating the policy could “include a hold on any funds balance and potentially returned funds for already made payments,”Ãâà...
Syracuse.com
March 28, 2018
The department didn't get a federal grant it applied for from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance in 2015. At the time, Syracuse applied for $600,000 to purchase 222 body cameras. Syracuse's grant request was thin and poorly developed compared to the request from the otherÃâà...
Saipan Tribune
March 14, 2018
... and give back to their communities. The CNMI is grateful to have Price come and conduct the training. Special thanks to the Bureau of Justice Assistance, in partnership with the National Drug Court Institute, for sponsoring and offering technical assistance that allowed this training to be possible. (PR).
Marinscope Community Newspapers
March 13, 2018
Child Abuse, Etc: The Marin Sheriff's Department responded to two cases of child abuse, one in Tiburon and one on Grande Paseo. In this time frame, the department also responded to numerous traffic incidents, vandalism in Strawberry, a drug violation on Peter Behr Drive, a burglary in Marin City, a homeÃâà...
Education Week (blog)
March 13, 2018
5) Bureaucratic shuffling: Rutherford's bill would move the Secure Our Schools grant program out of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office at the Justice Department, and into the Bureau of Justice Assistance, which provides technical assistance to state and local officials. Hatch's billÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
March 13, 2018
The $165,000 grant, along with a local match, is expected to cover cameras and equipment for each of the 110 patrol officers on the force, officials have said. The City Council approved the grant in November. The grant, from federal Bureau of Justice Assistance, requires a local match. That can be madeÃâà...
Winston-Salem Journal
March 12, 2018
Under the Justice Department's wing is the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), which administers numerous grants designed to reduce crime in local communities. In October 2016, after two years of jumping through the usual hoops, Highland County -- where Hillsboro is the county seat -- was awardedÃâà...
Worcester Mag
March 10, 2018
Casey Starr, director of community initiatives for the Main South CDC, oversees the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Initiative, which operates under a grant from the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The project works to decrease crime and improve the perception of safety in theÃâà...
CitiesSpeak (blog)
March 8, 2018
The Council of State Governments (CSG), with funding support from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration and the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, recently launched the Clean Slate Clearinghouse to support criminal record clearance effortsÃâà...
Utica Observer Dispatch
March 7, 2018
U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-New Hartford, has co-sponsored the Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Act of 2018. This bipartisan bill reauthorizes and amends the 2001 Secure Our Schools program through the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance,Ãâà...
Hillsboro Times Gazette
March 2, 2018
“In April 2017, a withholding of funds was placed on the grant as a result of the Bureau of Justice Assistance grant manager's discovery that key grants management responsibilities were being administered by a sub-recipient,” according to the response to The Times-Gazette. “Issues that need to beÃâà...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
March 1, 2018
"The CDC, NIH, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the National Institute of Justice also should be involved in this research agenda," he told me. "With the scope of deaths, it deserves a broad group of researchers, and you should fund centers of excellence to further the research. We should have researchÃâà...
Afro American
March 1, 2018
At one time, Malinowski was project manager for LAPD's Predictive Policing program, and principal investigator for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, “Smart Policing Initiative.” Malinowski is currently consulting with the BPD. “It's a strategic analysis that is important to the crime fight, to be able to target areasÃâà...
Tampabay.com
February 28, 2018
Reauthorize and expand the 2001 Secure Our Schools program through the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, providing local law enforcement, school personnel and students with the tools they need to proactively prevent a threat. The legislation authorizes $50 million annually for stateÃâà...
Hillsboro Times Gazette
February 28, 2018
Based on interviews with people familiar with the grant process, an initial set of concerns from the Bureau of Justice Assistance over local contacts and agents seemed to have been successfully addressed. But bureau officials seemed to be “moving the goalposts,” as more than one official said. For instanceÃâà...
Press Herald
February 27, 2018
In 2010, we were one of six agencies nationally recognized by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance and Council of State Governments for our law enforcement and mental health collaboration. Through this effort, we've partnered with local hospitals, inpatient and outpatient professionalsÃâà...
Mankato Free Press
February 27, 2018
NEW ULM — The New Ulm Police Department is drafting a policy for body-worn camera use and shopping for equipment after it received a Bureau of Justice Assistance grant to cover the cost of cameras. On Monday, the department held a public forum right after the city's Human Rights CommissionÃâà...
Duluth News Tribune
February 21, 2018
The approval will allow court and county officials to pursue ongoing state funding and apply for a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, with the goal of hiring a dedicated program staff. There are approximately 10,000 veterans in the southern portion of St. Louis County,Ãâà...
Campus Safety Magazine
February 19, 2018
NASRO executive director Mo Canady made the request during a Law Enforcement National Stakeholder Organizational Briefing hosted by the DOJ's Bureau of Justice Assistance, which had been scheduled prior to Wednesday's tragic school shooting in Parkland. Grants provided by the DOJ are doneÃâà...
FiveThirtyEight
February 12, 2018
Since 2007 to 2016, 33 states changed their sentencing and corrections policies through the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, a public-private partnership with the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Pew Charitable Trusts and several other organizations, according to a report fromÃâà...
News & Observer
February 9, 2018
A report DOJ submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance in January shows testing has yielded DNA profiles that match 20 known offenders in the FBI's CODIS database, including 11 who weren't listed as a suspect in the original case. USA Today Network-Wisconsin first reported the data Thursday.
Seattle Times
February 9, 2018
A report DOJ submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance in January shows testing has yielded DNA profiles that match 20 known offenders in the FBI's CODIS database, including 11 who weren't listed as a suspect in the original case. USA Today Network-Wisconsin first reported the data Thursday.
Hillsboro Times Gazette
December 31, 1999
Staffing and oversight issues have been among the concerns expressed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the grant wing of the DOJ. After months of local officials receiving little to no responses from the BJA about the grant snafu, federal officials finally responded to inquiries earlier this month fromÃâà...
Hillsboro Times Gazette
December 31, 1999
What's clear in regard to the stalled $844,000 Rocky Fork Lake grant is that one day out of the blue, officials with the Bureau of Justice Assistance – the grant wing of the Department of Justice – actually read Highland County's grant proposal and implementation plan. It's reminiscent of Nancy Pelosi'sÃâà...
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