Grants

Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG)

Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) merged the Byrne and Local Law Enforcement Block Grant(LLEBG)Grants. The JAG grant is available through OCJS. The JAG Grant requires a 25% match for your project. Therefore an approved project to purchase four MDT for $5,000 each, for a total of $20,000, the subgrantee, i.e., the City or Village, will need to pay $2500 for the first 25% and OCJS will pay the remaining $17,500.

All grants through OCJS now require departments to submit Ohio Incident Based Reporting Statistics (OIBRS). Typically your Records Management System (RMS) system does this for you, if your agency does not have an RMS system, OCJS offer the Law Enforcement Officers Toolkit (LEOT) for $350 a year or OHLEG-RMS which is free.

Justice Assistance Grant Law Enforcement (JAG LE)

The Justice Assistance Grant Law Enforcement (JAG LE) is even better than the full JAG version as it only requires a 10% match. Therefore a project to purchase four $5000 MDT's will only require the City to pickup $2000 of the total cost. Unlike the above full JAG grant, the JAG-LE grant has typically been limited to a maximum reimbursement of $20,000 from OCJS.

My department has been successful in recieving several of these grants over the years from OCJS. We have used JAG and JAG-LE grants or their predecessors under the name LLEBG to buy Toughbook computers for the cruisers including, printers, drivers license swipers, mounting hardware. Justice Assistance Grants have also paid for the LEOT software, computer servers, ilincs connectivity, radio scanners, security cameras, digital fingerprinting equipment, computer forensics equipment, etc.

Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant

Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant (JAIBG or JABG) I have used the Franklin County JPU for this grant, but is is also available available from OCJS.  JAIBG provides for 90% reimursement of programs that assist with working with juvenile related offenses.  I have used this grant for overtime, computers, and power point projectors in ways related to working with juveniles at the schools or in the community.

Violence Against Women Act Grant Program

Violence Against Women Act Grant Program. I have used the Franklin County JPU for this grant, but the grant is also available from OCJS.  This grant has pays up to 75% percent for equipment or projects to assist with domestic violence cases, sexual assaults, stalking, etc.  I have used the grant in the past to obtain interviewing equipment, digital cameras, and crime scene investigation equipment and money to pay for the overtime costs to send officers to training on domestic violence and sexual assault training.

Bulletproof Vest Partnership

Bulletproof Vest Partnership provides reimbursement to police departments for 50% of bulletproof vest costs.

Eddie Eagle

The NRA Gun Safety grant provides some free gun safety training material

CopsMore

Cops More has a number of project areas that can be used in a number of areas, such as assisting in the funding of officers overtime, hiring officers, or purchasing special technological equipment.

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