Grants / Department of Justice / Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention

O-OJJDP-2021-21002: OJJDP FY 2021 Strengthening ICAC Technological Investigative Capacity

Closed Closed July 6, 2021 Opportunity O-OJJDP-2021-21002 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: OJJDP FY 2026 Internet Crimes Against Children On-Line Child Protection System (ICACCOPS) (O-OJJDP-2026-172740). Status: Closes November 16, 2026 (9 days left). It is in our archive of Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Total funding$3.0 million
• Expected awards4
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to any type of organization.

For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, as of October 28, 2020, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient. For detailed information on this new certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO. All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee. OJJDP will consider applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees). For additional information on subawards, see the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide. This solicitation has two grant categories. Information regarding the specific eligibility requirements for each category can be found below. Applicants must clearly designate the category for which they are applying. Applicants are eligible to submit applications under one or both categories.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Missing Children's Assistance awards averaged $1.8 million; this notice allows up to $1.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (51% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights, increases access to justice, supports crime victims, protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. This solicitation provides funding for applicant organizations to increase the technological investigative capacity of Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces and their affiliates as well as related state, tribal, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies through training and the development and/or enhancement of widely used investigative tools, methods, and technologies.

Category: Law, Justice and Legal Services.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, O-OJJDP-2026-172740, which is open now.

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