The IPS Program supports prosecutors’ efforts to reduce caseloads, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their policies, processes, and procedures, and provide modern technology to better manage and track cases. The IPS program also encourages prosecutors’ offices to pursue and implement innovative practices that better administer justice to the communities they serve.

The program’s goal is to test data-driven approaches that address one or more of the objectives listed below. Successful applicants will work closely with BJA staff and the training and technical assistance provider to assist prosecutorial agencies in incorporating innovative or evidence-based prosecution strategies as a fundamental component of their efforts to reduce crime and ensure public safety.

Objectives:

• Test, establish, and/or expand programming that enhances prosecutors’ ability to effectively and sustainably prevent and respond to crime, especially violent crime, which could include the hiring of new prosecutors.
• Foster innovative, effective, formalized, and consistent collaborations with external agencies, and the communities they serve, to increase public safety and trust in the criminal justice system.
• Use technology, intelligence, and data in innovative ways that enable prosecutors’ offices to focus resources on the people and places associated with high concentrations of crime and to allow state and local prosecutors’ offices to improve their operations to more efficiently and effectively work with communities in reducing crime.
• Enable prosecutors’ offices to reduce caseloads to manageable levels by modernizing offices, hiring analytical or support staff, and updating information technology.

Priority Areas: https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/O-BJA-2023-171539.pdf#page=7

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)

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