BJA FY 2021 Invited to Apply - Sex Offender and Registration Notification Act (SORNA) Reallocation Funds | O BJA 2021 35001

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The BJA FY 2021 Invited to Apply - Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) Reallocation Funds opportunity is a U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) grant program that provides funding to support work tied to SORNA implementation and related public safety objectives. In plain terms, it is aimed at strengthening the national system that requires certain convicted sex offenders to register and that enables jurisdictions to notify the public as appropriate. The program sits within DOJ's broader public safety and justice priorities, including advancing civil rights, improving access to justice, supporting crime victims, protecting the public from crime and evolving threats, and helping build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

The grant is grounded in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, a major federal law focused on reducing sexual exploitation and violent crime, preventing child abuse and child pornography, promoting internet safety, and memorializing victims such as Adam Walsh. SORNA, a core piece of that act, establishes a comprehensive national framework for sex offender registration and notification. The intent is to make registration requirements more consistent across jurisdictions and to improve the ability of law enforcement and the public to track and respond to risks posed by convicted sex offenders, including those who move between states or otherwise fall through gaps created by inconsistent systems.

Legally, the opportunity cites statutory authority under 34 U.S.C. 10151 et seq. and 34 U.S.C. 20927(c), indicating that the funding is tied to federal provisions that support SORNA-related compliance and enforcement activities. The listing also provides the program's CFDA number (16.738), which is a standard federal identifier used to track assistance programs and is helpful for grants management, auditing, and reporting.

This particular solicitation is labeled "Invited to Apply" and "Reallocation Funds," which signals two important practical details: first, it is not necessarily an open competition for all entities, but rather targeted to specific recipients invited by BJA; second, the funding source is tied to reallocated dollars, meaning funds that are being redistributed, often because they were unspent, deobligated, or otherwise made available for reassignment within the program. The opportunity was categorized under "Other" for the opportunity category, uses the "Grant" funding instrument type, and is published by the Department of Justice (BJA). While the funding activity category is listed as "Affordable Care Act" in the source data, the substance of the program is clearly focused on criminal justice and SORNA implementation; that label sometimes appears in federal datasets due to internal coding conventions and is not a description of the program's policy purpose.

From the funding details provided, BJA anticipated making about 25 awards, with an award ceiling of $749,329 per award. The opportunity was created on June 9, 2021, and had an original closing date of July 9, 2021, reflecting a one-month application window typical of invited or limited solicitations. Eligibility is broadly labeled as "Others," with a note to consult the solicitation's additional eligibility text for the precise eligible applicant types; in practice, SORNA-related funding commonly involves state, territorial, tribal, or local entities and their designated agencies that manage sex offender registration, compliance, enforcement, and associated information systems, though the definitive eligibility rules would be in the full solicitation.

Overall, the opportunity is best understood as targeted grant support to help jurisdictions maintain, improve, or complete work connected to the national sex offender registration and notification framework established under SORNA, aligning local and state implementation with federal expectations in order to strengthen public safety, improve information sharing, and protect communities from sexual exploitation and related violent crime.

• The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance in the affordable care act sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BJA FY 2021 Invited to Apply - Sex Offender and Registration Notification Act (SORNA) Reallocation Funds" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.738.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 09, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 09, 2021. (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 $749,329.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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