Assistance program
National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative
$297.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 16.833
- What it does
- Goal(s): Funding under this initiative is intended to help law enforcement and prosecutors address challenges associated with unsubmitted SAKs and unresolved violent cold case crimes in order to reduce the number of unsubmitted SAKs and unresolved cold cases in their jurisdictions. This funding is intended to give them the resources and tools to solve and reduce violent crimes associated with sexual assault, while achieving the long-term goal of improving the criminal justice response to sexual assault and unresolved violent cold case crimes. Objective(s): To support multidisciplinary community response teams to inventory, track, and expeditiously test unsubmitted SAKs; collect and test lawfully owed DNA from offenders/arrestees; produce necessary protocols and policies to improve collaboration among laboratories, police, prosecutors, and victim service providers; provide resources to address the sexual assault investigations and prosecutions that result from evidence and CODIS hits produced by tested SAKs; optimize victim notification protocols and services as well as address the lack of criminal justice resources for other violent cold case crimes. Performance Measure 1: Total number of kits inventoried; and, Performance Measure 2: Total number of kits tested to completion.
- Who benefits
- U.S. Citizen.
- Who applies
- The following entities are eligible to apply for Purpose Areas 1, 3, 4: Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) Other: • State law enforcement agencies; • Units of local government; • Governmental nonlaw enforcement agencies acting as their fiscal agents • Prosecutor’s offices The following entities are eligible to apply for Purpose Area 2: • Other: Small law enforcement agencies or consortia of small law enforcement agencies The following entities are eligible to apply for Purpose Areas 5 and 6: • Other: Existing and/or previous SAKI grantees that have addressed their unsubmitted kits and have clearly demonstrated they have also addressed the downstream case activities under SAKI (investigation, prosecution) for at least 75 percent of their cases. For the purposes of this solicitation, “small law enforcement agencies†are defined as agencies that have fewer than 250 sworn officers or a consortia of small agencies. See the current solicitation available at the Office of Justice Programs website https://ojp.gov/funding/Explore/CurrentFundingOpportunities.htm.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 118-42; Statute 136, p. 25, 148
- Program site
- https://bja.ojp.gov/program/saki/overview ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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