Crime Reduction Grants

About the Crime Reduction Grants

The New Mexico Sentencing Commission periodically accepts applications for crime reduction grant funding. Grant projects may be for any of the following 12 purposes:

  1. Develop, expand and improve evidence-based treatment and supervision alternatives to incarceration
  2. Reduce barriers to participation by criminal offenders in preprosecution diversion or specialty court programs
  3. Develop or improve pretrial service programs
  4. Develop or improve coordination of services between law enforcement agencies and treatment programs
  5. Establish law enforcement crisis intervention teams
  6. Coordinate access to programs for transitional or reentry homes for individuals recently released from incarceration
  7. Recruit or retain law enforcement officers, prosecutors, public defenders, corrections officers and mental health workers
  8. Develop or expand digitized records
  9. Develop or expand the ability of a criminal justice coordinating council member to share data with, and access data on, the statewide criminal justice data integration platform
  10. Develop or expand data-driven policing programs and pretrial services
  11. Staff a criminal justice coordinating council
  12. Purchase equipment or provide training to support any of the above purposes

The Crime Reduction Grant Act (CRGA) was passed in 2019 as a way to spur local-level innovation to address criminal justice issues. Applications for Crime Reduction Grants are approved by a Judicial District’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to ensure that there is a strong nexus between the grant request and local needs. When the CRGA was passed, the goal was that the grants would serve as incubators for ideas or models that, if successful, would ultimately be funded by the state, or rolled out to other Judicial Districts. It is anticipated that certain programs might be funded through the CRGA process for multiple grant cycles, but once a program is established and been shown to be effective, the program would then turn to the Legislature for funding. While certain grants have been made in the past for hiring of personnel, that is not the preferred kind of grant. We encourage communities throughout the state to be inventive, be creative, and, with the approval of their Judicial District’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, apply for a grant.

Crime Reduction Grant Listserv

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