FY 2022 National Pretrial Reporting Program | O BJS 2022 171363

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The FY 2022 National Pretrial Reporting Program (NPRP) grant opportunity is a continuation cooperative agreement offered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), through the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). It is designed to strengthen national criminal justice statistics on pretrial detention and release by expanding and standardizing the collection of felony case-processing metrics across major U.S. jurisdictions. The program sits within OJP's broader priorities of promoting civil rights and racial equity, improving access to justice, supporting victims and people impacted by the justice system, strengthening community safety, addressing evolving public safety threats, and building trust between law enforcement and communities through more transparent and reliable data.

This specific FY 2022 action is described as a supplemental award that extends and enlarges an existing effort. The additional funding supports work conducted from January 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024, with the primary goal of expanding the data collection sample by 50 more counties. That expansion is not just about adding names to a list; it comes with the practical work needed to make the data usable and comparable, including outreach to local agencies, follow-up to reduce nonresponse, and extensive data processing, cleaning, and standardization so that information pulled from different local systems can be analyzed consistently.

NPRP's larger objective is to produce measures of felony case processing that are representative of pretrial detention and release practices in the largest 200 counties in the United States. In practice, that means gathering information that can describe what happens to people after arrest and charging but before case resolution, including whether they are detained or released, and how courts and related agencies handle those decisions. The focus on the largest counties is meant to capture jurisdictions that represent a substantial share of the U.S. population and criminal caseload, making national estimates more meaningful for policy, research, and public understanding.

The opportunity also reflects the structure of the original NPRP award, which laid the groundwork for building a scalable national reporting program. Earlier project components included reviewing the State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) data to identify key data needs and gaps, expanding SCPS collection to better represent pretrial practices across a broader portion of the population, and running a data capacity survey in roughly 125 of the 200 largest counties to determine whether critical data elements exist locally and whether they can be extracted from information systems. The original award also supported a pilot test in about ten counties to validate methods and procedures, followed by executing the larger-scale collection of data extracts from courts, jails, and pretrial services agencies, and producing a project summary. This supplemental effort builds directly on that foundation by adding 50 counties and completing the associated operational and technical tasks necessary to incorporate them into the national dataset.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed as Funding Opportunity Number O-BJS-2022-171363 under CFDA 16.734, with BJS as the issuing agency. The instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which typically implies substantial involvement by the federal agency in guiding or coordinating aspects of the work compared with a more hands-off formula or discretionary grant. The posting indicated an expected single award, with an award ceiling of $1,000,000. Eligibility is broadly identified as "Others" with further clarification referenced in the full eligibility text, signaling that the award is not necessarily limited to state or local governments and may include entities such as research organizations, universities, or other qualified partners, consistent with BJS's statutory authority.

The statutory authority for the program is tied to section 302 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, which authorizes BJS to make grants or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with a range of entities, including public agencies, institutions of higher education, private organizations, and individuals, for the purpose of collecting and analyzing criminal justice data and producing reliable statistics. In short, the legal basis supports BJS's core mission: building credible national-level justice statistics, and in this case, improving the country's ability to measure and understand pretrial practices through systematic data collection across large counties.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2022 National Pretrial Reporting Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.734.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 10, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 17, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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