OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes Program
Supports states, Indian tribes, and local governments to prevent, enforce, and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals, including harassment, threats, stalking, extortion, intimidation, and nonconsensual distribution of intimate images.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV · TRIBAL ENTITIES
⚑ Eligible applicants are limited to States, Indian Tribes, and units of local government; public universities are not eligible to apply directly. · Funds law enforcement/prevention/prosecution activities for cybercrimes against individuals; not a research program.
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 | 5 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
This program supports efforts by States, Indian Tribes, and units of local government to prevent, enforce, and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals. Cybercrimes against individuals are defined as criminal offenses that involve the use of a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, coerce, cause fear to, or intimidate an individual, or without consent distribute intimate images of an adult, except that use of a computer need not be an element of the offense.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants are limited to: States, Indian Tribes and units of local government.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Office on Violence Against Women <ovw.cybercrimes@usdoj.gov>
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