BJA FY25 State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP)
Formula payments are available to eligible states and units of local government to reimburse certain incarceration costs associated with undocumented criminal aliens during the specified reporting period.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV
⚑ Statutory formula/reimbursement-style program, not a research competition. · Eligible applicants are states and units of local government only; public universities are not direct applicants. · Funds reimburse incarceration-related costs for a prior reporting period, not project implementation.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 0 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
This NOFO seeks applications for payments under the statutorily required State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) to eligible “states” and “units of local government” that incurred certain types of costs due to “incarceration” of “undocumented criminal aliens” during the July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, reporting period.
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View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Bureau of Justice Assistance <SCAAP@usdoj.gov>
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Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
18/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is a formula payment program for states and local governments to reimburse incarceration-related costs tied to undocumented criminal aliens; it is not a research, evaluation, or data infrastructure opportunity. The only IPPRA connection is a very indirect public-safety/national-security policy angle, but the opportunity does not fund social science or policy research and is not a fit for a public university as a lead applicant.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a formula payment program for states and local governments to reimburse incarceration-related costs tied to undocumented criminal aliens; it is not a research, evaluation, or data infrastructure opportunity. The only IPPRA connection is a very indirect public-safety/national-security policy angle, but the opportunity does not fund social science or policy research and is not a fit for a public university as a lead applicant. |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a formula-style payment program for eligible states and local governments to reimburse incarceration costs related to undocumented criminal aliens, not a competitive research grant. It does not present a research, survey, behavioral, policy-analysis, or community-engagement component that matches IPPRA’s portfolio areas, and public universities are not among the eligible applicants. |