BJA FY25 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI)

This funding opportunity seeks to reduce sexual assault and violent crime, hold violent offenders accountable, and deliver support and justice for victims resulting from significant backlogs of unsubmitted and partially tested sexual assault kits (SAKs). Funding will provide resources and support to criminal justice agencies in their efforts to improve their jurisdictional response to sexually motivated crimes.

This funding opportunity seeks to reduce sexual assault and violent crime, hold violent offenders accountable, and deliver support and justice for victims resulting from significant backlogs of unsubmitted and partially tested sexual assault kits (SAKs). Funding will provide resources and support to criminal justice agencies in their efforts to improve their jurisdictional response to sexually motivated crimes.

The following entities are eligible to apply for Categories 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6: 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 Category 2: Small law enforcement agencies or consortia of small law enforcement agencies. For the purposes of this NOFO, “small law enforcement agencies” are defined as agencies that have fewer than 250 sworn officers. The following entities are eligible to apply for Categories 3, 4, and 6: Jurisdictions that have addressed their unsubmitted and partially tested SAKs and have clearly demonstrated they have also addressed the downstream case activities (e.g., crime analysis, investigation, victim notification, CODIS hit follow up, and prosecutions) for at least 75 percent of the associated cases under the jurisdiction’s control and/or authority. The following entities are eligible to apply for Category 5: Existing or previous SAKI grantees that have addressed their unsubmitted and partially tested kits and have clearly demonstrated they have also addressed the downstream case activities under SAKI (crime analysis/investigation/victim notification/CODIS hit follow up/prosecutions) for at least 75 percent of the associated cases under the jurisdiction’s control and/or authority.