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Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program
This opportunity supports programs to prevent and reduce school violence by implementing training, developing school threat assessment teams and/or intervention teams to identify violence risks, introducing technologies like anonymous reporting tools, or applying other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence. Allowable uses include:
Training to prevent student violence against others and self, including training for local law enforcement officers, school personnel, and students.
The development and operation of technology solutions such as anonymous reporting systems for threats of school violence, including mobile telephone applications, hotlines, and internet websites.
The development and deployment of:
School threat assessment and intervention teams that include coordination with law enforcement agencies and school personnel or
Specialized training for school officials in responding to mental health crises.
Funding Amount: $1,000,000 to $2,000,000
Match: Not Required
Application Deadline:
SF-424: October 30, 2026
Full Application: November 6, 2026
You can find more information here.
Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program
This opportunity strengthens the capacity of wrongful conviction review (WCR) entities and their criminal justice and victims’ services partners to more effectively and efficiently identify, assess, and manage post-conviction claims of innocence. Additionally, it aims to enhance public safety by preventing future errors, identifying actual perpetrators of crimes, and delivering justice to victims. Projects will be led by a WCR entity that focuses on the review of post-conviction claims of innocence. This project can support a collaborative partnership with a prosecutor’s office or conviction integrity units (CIUs). If applicants include this partnership, they should document how it will coordinate relevant information-sharing of post-conviction claims of innocence.
Funding Amount: up to $600,000
Match: Not Required
Application Deadline:
SF-424: November 2, 2026
Full Application: November 9, 2026
You can find more information here.
Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Strengthening State and Local Operations to Reduce Crime and Recidivism
Supports local government efforts to reduce wasteful spending and inefficient use of funds across justice system operations and redirect that funding to target crime and other public safety and/or justice system challenges. Applicants should propose projects that address one or more urgent local justice system challenges. Example projects include:
Developing and testing applications of advanced technology to increase efficiency.
Improving court processing and efficient docket management, improving pretrial systems.
Addressing the needs of high system utilization by populations with mental health and/or substance use issues.
Strengthening the ability of law enforcement to investigate and respond to crimes by focusing on less resource-intensive alternative responses to mental health crises or improving the performance and timeliness of forensic evidence processing.
Funding Amount: Up to $4,000,000
Match: Not Required
Application Deadline:
SF-424: November 20, 2026
Full Application: December 1, 2026
You can find more information here.
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2026 Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP)
Reimburses units of local government for up to 50% of the cost of body armor vests purchased for law enforcement officers. Funds are first allocated to units of local government with fewer than 100,000 residents.
Funding Amount: Dependent on the number of vests requested
Match: 50%
Application Deadline: October 30, 2026
You can find more information here.