16.833: National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative

16.833

Active

Office of Justice Programs (OJP) [DOJ]

July 27, 2022

July 27, 2022

Goals: The goal of the SAKI is the creation of a coordinated community response that ensures just resolution to these cases whenever possible through a victim-centered approach, as well as to build jurisdictions’ capacity to prevent the development of conditions that lead to high numbers of un-submitted SAKs in the future. Objectives: The Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, administered by BJA, provides funding through a competitive grant program to support multi-disciplinary community response teams engaged in the comprehensive reform of jurisdictions’ approaches to sexual assault cases resulting from evidence found in previously un-submitted sexual assault kits (SAKs). Un-submitted kits (those in in police custody that have never been submitted to a crime laboratory for testing with CODIS-eligible DNA methodologies) and untested kits (those that have been submitted to crime labs but are delayed for testing (e.g. as a result of a backlog of work in the laboratory) are separate and distinct issues. The focus of this effort is on those un- submitted kits that have never been submitted to a crime laboratory.

B - Project Grants

Eligible applicants for Purpose Areas 1, 3 and 4 are law enforcement agencies of states, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), prosecutor’s offices, or a governmental non-law enforcement agency acting as fiscal agent for one of the previously listed types of eligible applicants. Eligible applicants for Purpose Area 2 are limited to Small Law Enforcement Agencies with less than 250 sworn officers OR consortia of small law enforcement agencies. See the current solicitation available at the Office of Justice Programs website https://ojp.gov/funding/Explore/CurrentFundingOpportunities.htm.

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