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The Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number BJS 2015-4210) is a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) initiative designed to strengthen and expand the federal government s data collection on tribal policing and public safety in Indian country. The effort is rooted in the Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA) of 2010, which directs BJS to establish and implement a tribal data collection system. In practical terms, the grant supports work that helps BJS produce more current, useful, and detailed statistics about crime and the criminal justice response within tribal justice systems, filling long standing gaps in national datasets and improving the ability of tribal nations, policymakers, and researchers to understand law enforcement capacity and needs.

This opportunity is closely connected to BJS s broader Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), a nationwide census fielded about every four years that gathers standardized information from more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States, including state, local, and tribal agencies. CSLLEA focuses on foundational agency characteristics such as staffing levels (sworn officers and civilian personnel) and the functions agencies regularly perform. The grant emphasizes ensuring tribal law enforcement is accurately represented and measured within this national framework, while also addressing the reality that a one size fits all census instrument can limit how much tribal specific detail is captured unless additional focused work is done.

The announcement highlights what CSLLEA has produced for tribal agencies in the past and what it is collecting now, which signals the kinds of information this grant is meant to support and ultimately publish. For example, the 2008 CSLLEA collected data from 178 tribal law enforcement agencies operating in Indian country and produced a national profile that covered agency type, numbers of full time sworn personnel, population and reservation size served, operating costs per resident, and law enforcement functions performed on a regular basis. Those findings were published by BJS in Tribal Law Enforcement, 2008 (NCJ 234217). Building on that foundation, the 2014 CSLLEA (noted as being in the field at the time of this solicitation) expands data elements beyond the basics to include the race and Hispanic origin of full time sworn personnel, employment and transition services for military veterans, special recruitment efforts, counts of hires and separations by type, the number of civilian deaths by cause of death, the types of technology used by the agency, and characteristics of the agency dispatch center. Although these items are being collected from all agencies nationwide, the notice points out that tribal law enforcement data can still be limited because the core CSLLEA instrument is designed to be uniform across all agency types, reinforcing the need for additional tribal focused data collection capacity and analysis.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity under the Information and Statistics category and is offered as a cooperative agreement, meaning BJS expects substantial involvement in the work rather than a hands off grant. BJS anticipated making one award, with an estimated total funding amount of 800,000 dollars. The posting date was April 7, 2015, with an original and current closing date of June 8, 2015, and an archive date of July 8, 2015. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement listed. The CFDA program number associated with the award is 16.734 (Special Data Collections and Statistical Studies).

Eligibility is broad and intentionally inclusive of organizations positioned to carry out statistical collection and related project work. Eligible applicants include national, regional, state, or local public and private entities, for profit and nonprofit organizations, faith based and community organizations, institutions of higher education, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, and units of local government that support initiatives to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system. The sponsoring agency is the Bureau of Justice Statistics within the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). For access issues related to the full announcement, the listed point of contact was Cathy Maston, Management and Program Analyst, at 202 307 5992.

In short, the grant supports BJS s mandated and ongoing effort to build a stronger tribal justice data infrastructure by improving the completeness and usefulness of information on tribal law enforcement agencies. It ties directly to the national CSLLEA census work, but with an emphasis on ensuring tribal agencies are captured in a way that can produce meaningful, actionable statistics about staffing, operations, resources, technology, and other agency characteristics relevant to public safety in Indian country.

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