Grant Due: FY 2021 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI)
WHAT DOES IT FUND? The SAKI program provides funding to support multidisciplinary community response teams to inventory, track, and expeditiously test previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits (SAKs); collect and test lawfully owned 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 SAKs; and optimize victim notification protocols and services. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State law enforcement agencies, local governments, Indian tribal governments, governmental non-law enforcement agencies acting as their fiscal agents, and prosecutor's offices
WHEN'S IT DUE? July 6, 2021