Smart Prosecution Initiative

Program goal(s) name: Support prosecutors to solve chronic problems and fight violent crime.

Program goal(s) description: Improve prosecutor operations to more efficiently and effectively aid communities in achieving a reduction in crime.

Program objective(s) name: Enhance prosecutor capacity

Program objective(s) description: Test, establish, and/or expand programming that enhances prosecutors' ability to effectively and sustainably prevent and respond to crime, especially violent crime, which could include the hiring of new prosecutors; Foster effective, formalized, and consistent collaborations with external agencies, and the communities they serve, to increase public safety; Use technology, intelligence, and data in innovative ways that enable prosecutors' offices to focus resources on the people and places associated with high concentrations of crime and to allow state and local prosecutors' offices to improve their operations in an effort to more efficiently and effectively aid communities in achieving a reduction in crime; Enable prosecutors' offices to reduce caseloads to manageable levels through office modernization, hiring analytical or support staff, and updating information technology.

All final award decisions will be made by the Assistant Attorney General, unless a statute explicitly authorizes award decisions by another official or there is written delegation of authority to another official. For successful applicants, JustGrants will send a system-generated email to the Application Submitter, Authorized Representative, and Entity Administrator with information on accessing their official award package in JustGrants. The award package will include key information (such as funding amount and period of performance) as well as award conditions that must be followed. The Authorized Representative for the entity should accept or decline the award within 45 days of the notification.

The review procedure for applications is specified in the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) and generally includes eligibility and responsiveness, merit, programmatic, budget, and risk reviews.