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handle is hein.crs/govehny0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional ____ ~ Research Service Department of Justice Grant Funding in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act July 12, 2022 The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA, P.L. 117-159) provides $1.5 billion in funding for Department of Justice (DOJ) grants to help address gun violence, which includes * $750 million for state crisis intervention programs, * $300 million for the Matching Grant Program for School Security (school security grants), * $200 million for grants to upgrade criminal and mental health records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), and * $250 million for community violence intervention and prevention programs. DOJ is required to distribute these funds in equal amounts each fiscal year from FY2022 to FY2026. Crisis Intervention Programs BSCA amended the authorization for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program to allow funds to be used for state crisis intervention court proceedings and related programs or initiatives, which can include drug, mental health, and veteran treatment courts and extreme risk protection order programs. For the latter, the act establishes standards that include due process rights, including, at a minimum, the right to an in-person hearing, the right to an unbiased adjudicator, the right to know opposing evidence, the right to present evidence, and the right to confront adverse witnesses; the right to be represented by counsel; evidentiary standards that, at a minimum, are equal to those of a similarly situated litigant in federal or state court, including procedures to prevent admission of evidence that is unsworn, irrelevant, based on hearsay, unreliable, vague, speculative, and lacking a foundation; and penalties for abuse of the programs. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11968 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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