SMART FY 2024 Maintenance and Operation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website | O SMART 2024 172242

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The SMART FY 2024 Maintenance and Operation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW.gov) grant opportunity is a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP) initiative administered through the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART Office). It is a continuation opportunity structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning the federal government expects to have an active role in guiding or collaborating on the funded work rather than simply issuing funds with minimal involvement. The overall purpose is to keep the national public-facing sex offender search site, NSOPW.gov, running smoothly and to support the connected systems that allow jurisdictions to share registry information effectively.

NSOPW.gov is designed as a single, centralized U.S. government website that connects and searches across public sex offender registries from all states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and participating Tribal jurisdictions. Instead of requiring the public to navigate dozens of separate registry websites, NSOPW.gov offers a unified search experience that links to those jurisdictional registries and returns information about registered sex offenders to the public. Beyond public access, the site also serves an information-sharing function for registry officials across jurisdictions, which is important because individuals on registries may move or have reporting obligations that cross state, territorial, or Tribal boundaries. The opportunity notes that the front-end operations of NSOPW.gov are maintained by OJP, and the funding supports the continued maintenance and operation of this national capability.

The work supported by this funding focuses on ensuring that jurisdictions can make their sex offender registry data available in response to searches conducted on NSOPW.gov. In practical terms, this involves the technology, coordination, and ongoing support needed so that registry data from many different jurisdictions can be queried and returned reliably through the national site. The opportunity also emphasizes related technology tools that help jurisdictions with core registry functions: registering and tracking sex offenders, sharing information with other jurisdictions, and supporting community notification by providing accurate and accessible public information. Taken together, the project is about keeping the national search platform functional and dependable while also helping participating jurisdictions maintain the technical connections and tools that make national-level searching and cross-jurisdiction information sharing possible.

The grant is tied to broader DOJ and OJP priorities, specifically efforts that promote civil rights and equity, increase access to justice, support crime victims and others impacted by the justice system, strengthen community safety, protect the public from crime and evolving threats, and build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. Within that framing, NSOPW.gov is positioned as a public-safety and transparency tool that supports informed community awareness while also improving the operational ability of jurisdictions to coordinate information. The solicitation explicitly links the program to DOJ's mission of upholding the rule of law, keeping the country safe, and protecting civil rights.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed under CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) number 16.750 and falls under the Law, Justice, and Legal Services activity category. It anticipates a single award (ExpectedAwards: 1) with an award ceiling of $1,974,548, indicating the project is intended to be carried out by one primary recipient at the national level rather than distributed across multiple smaller recipients. The eligible applicant category is listed as "Others," and the source text references the Institute for Intergovernmental Research, which appears in the provided description and may be the intended or typical implementing partner for this continuation award. The opportunity number is O-SMART-2024-172242, and the original closing date is September 10, 2024, reflecting a narrowly timed continuation funding action to sustain ongoing operations rather than launch a new, broad competitive program.

• The SMART in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "SMART FY 2024 Maintenance and Operation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.750.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-09-09.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-09-10. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,974,548.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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