FY 2022 California Law Enforcement Transition to NIBRS—Rapid Deployment Model Project | O BJS 2022 171414

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The FY 2022 California Law Enforcement Transition to NIBRS - Rapid Deployment Model Project is a continuation funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Its focus is on strengthening the quality and consistency of crime data reporting in California by accelerating the transition of major law enforcement agencies to the FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). This effort fits within OJP priorities that emphasize civil rights and racial equity, improved access to justice, support for victims and justice-involved individuals, stronger community safety strategies, and building public trust through better transparency and accountability in policing and public safety data.

The central purpose of the grant is to apply a Rapid Deployment Model (RDM) approach to help three of California's largest agencies move to NIBRS reporting: the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office (LASO). NIBRS is the FBI's incident-based crime reporting standard, designed to collect more detailed and standardized information than older summary-based systems. By moving these large agencies into NIBRS compliance, the project aims to improve statewide crime data completeness, comparability, and usefulness for analysis, policy decisions, and public reporting.

The project is structured to support the California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) in coordinating directly with SFPD, LAPD, and LASO to meet California's crime data reporting requirements and align with federal NIBRS standards. In practical terms, this kind of work typically involves aligning agency records management systems and reporting workflows to NIBRS data elements, validating data quality, addressing gaps in offense/incident coding, ensuring required fields are captured consistently, and establishing reliable submission processes to the state and ultimately to the FBI. The "rapid deployment" framing signals an emphasis on hands-on, implementation-oriented support intended to move agencies through remaining technical and operational hurdles efficiently.

This opportunity is issued as a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, meaning BJS expects substantial involvement in the project, such as ongoing coordination, technical guidance, and performance monitoring. The funding instrument and continuation category also indicate the work likely builds on previous phases or prior investments, with the goal of pushing remaining implementation milestones to completion for these specific agencies and the state partners supporting them.

Key administrative details from the posting include: the funding opportunity number is O-BJS-2022-171414, with an activity category focused on information and statistics under CFDA 16.734. The opportunity was created on August 5, 2022, with an original closing date of August 12, 2022, reflecting a short application window typical of continuation actions. The award ceiling is $2,248,126, and BJS anticipated making a single award, which aligns with the project design centered on CA DOJ as the coordinating entity across the participating agencies. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with clarification referenced in the full eligibility text of the solicitation.

The statutory authority for the program is rooted in section 302 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, which authorizes BJS to make grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts with a wide range of entities to collect and analyze criminal justice statistics (34 U.S.C. 10132(c)(1)). In short, the grant is designed to help California's largest local law enforcement agencies achieve NIBRS compliance through a coordinated, implementation-heavy strategy led by CA DOJ, improving the accuracy and depth of crime data available for public safety analysis and accountability.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in the information and statistics sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2022 California Law Enforcement Transition to NIBRS—Rapid Deployment Model Project" 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 Aug 05, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 12, 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 $2,248,126.00 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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