Strengthening the Medical Examiner‐Coroner System Program (DOJ)

• Date: 07 May 2020
• Published date: 07 May 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31047

Federal Grants & Contracts ■ May 7, 2020 Page 3

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Grants alert (cont.)

or a substantial part of a program intended to improve

the quality and timeliness of forensic science or medical

examiner/coroner services in the state; eliminate a

backlog in the analysis of forensic science evidence,

including, among other things, a backlog with respect to

rearms examination, latent prints, impression evidence,

toxicology, digital evidence, re evidence, controlled

substances, forensic pathology, questioned documents

and trace evidence; and train, assist and employ

forensic laboratory personnel and medicolegal death

investigators, as needed, to eliminate such a backlog,

among other activities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# BJA-2020-18433

Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice

Assistance seeks applications for the FY2020

Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA announcement.

Deadline: June 16, 2020.

Funds: $5 million total for awards of up to $470,000.

Eligibility: State, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments.

Areas: DOJ said funding assistance may be used for

projects to increase the number of violent crime cold case

prosecutions and decrease the number of unresolved

violent crime cold cases awaiting prosecution. Secondary

objectives include increasing the capacity for state

and local prosecution offices to address cold cases

involving violent crime and identifying, locating, collecting,

processing and analyzing evidence, including non-DNA

evidence, to assist prosecutors with the litigation of violent

crime cold cases where suspect DNA has been identied.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# BJA-2020-18432

Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner

System Program (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice

Assistance seeks applications for the FY2020

Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System

Program announcement.

Deadline: June 15, 2020.

Funds: Eight awards of up to $125,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: DOJ said funding will support grants in two focus

areas by supporting forensic pathology fellowships and

providing resources necessary for medical examiner and

coroner offices to achieve accreditation.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# BJA-2020-18435

Mapping Illicit Supply Networks to Combat

Conservation Crimes at their Convergence (DOS)

Scope: The State Department’s Bureau of Oceans and

International Environmental and Scientic Affairs seeks

applications for the Mapping Illicit Supply Networks to

Combat Conservation Crimes at their Convergence

announcement to identify, analyze and map the illicit

networks associated with conservation crimes and

understand the links, where they may exist, between the

different trafficking networks associated with conservation

crimes in one or more of the eligible countries.

Deadline: June 15, 2020.

Funds: One award of up to $493,750 for up to 24

months in duration.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: DOS said the project will include assistance to:

conduct research on the illegal extraction and trade of

these resources and their movement into, within or out

of the country; map the illicit networks associated with

these resources to identify points of convergence among

these illegal activities; and deliver recommendations

for policy and materials to aid technical capacity

development efforts to further address the

aforementioned conservation crimes as a group.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# SFOP0006847

Facilitating regional information exchange

and cooperation (DOS)

Scope: The State Department’s Bureau of Oceans and

International Environmental and Scientic Affairs seeks

applications for the Combating Wildlife Trafficking in Latin

America and the Caribbean (LAC) through Facilitating

Regional Information Exchange and Cooperation

announcement to work with assistance-eligible

developing countries and partners to build capacity for

data collection and information sharing among relevant

authorities in LAC to identify and combat regional

wildlife trafficking and conserve biodiversity.

Deadline: June 15, 2020.

Funds: Up to $395,000 in total funding in FY2019 for

one award with a project period of up to 24 months in

duration.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: DOS said expected results include: strengthened

mechanism(s) to aid in data collection, information and

technical exchange to address wildlife trafficking in LAC;

a report of wildlife trafficking trends in LAC, to include

biodiversity that is most threatened by wildlife trafficking,

associated drivers of trafficking for key wildlife and

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