Just announced: FY 2022 Census of Public Defender Offices

BJS seeks applications for funding for the second iteration of the Census of Public Defender Offices (CPDO). This 36-month program will collect information on indigent defense, including the operations, workload, staff size, policies, and procedures of the approximately 1,000 public defender offices across the nation. It includes (1) questionnaire development, (2) frame development, (3) fielding the CPDO, and (4) data cleaning, analysis, and delivery of raw and final datasets and a comprehensive final performance report.

Applications are submitted in a two-step process, each with its own deadline:

1. Submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in Grants.gov?Grants.gov deadline: July 6, 2022 by 8:59 p.m. ET.
2. Submit the full application including attachments in JustGrants. JustGrants deadline: July 13, 2022 by 8:59 p.m. ET.

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Actions needed to be associated with Unique Entity Identifiers (UEI) transition

As part of the federal government?s transition from the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) to UEI, Grants.gov transitioned to UEI at 11:59 p.m. ET on March 31, 2022. A recent JustGrants announcement includes important information about the transition and actions that entities must take when applying for funding opportunities with a Grants.gov close date after March 31, 2022.

Alert: SAM.gov entity validation update

The General Services Administration implemented a new process to validate an entity?s legal business name and physical address when requesting a UEI and for completing a SAM.gov entity registration. Due to a high volume of requests, entity validations are taking longer than expected to process. This validation process is now taking 7 to 10 business days and in some cases longer.?

The Office of Justice Programs strongly recommends starting your SAM.gov registration process as soon as possible to allow the time necessary to process entity validations well in advance of the Grants.gov deadline posted in the solicitation. Read this FAQ for more information.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Doris J. James is the acting director.

For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,?visit?BJS online.