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The AMBER Advocate, Issue 4 2020

Date Published
November 2020
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored

Department of Justice Awards More Than $458 Million To Fight Violent Crime

The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) announced awards of more than $458 million in fiscal year 2020 to support state, local, and Tribal law enforcement efforts to fight and prevent violent crime nationwide.

OJJDP awarded more than $10 million across 24 jurisdictions to intervene in and suppress youth gang activity. OJJDP also awarded $1 million to the Institute for Intergovernmental Research to...

Attorney General Barr Delivers Remarks at the National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation

On October 20, 2020, Attorney General William Barr gave video remarks at the virtual National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice. The training is part of the OJJDP-funded Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program, which supports law enforcement efforts to investigate and prosecute technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and Internet crimes against children. OJJDP awarded more...