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TDD (202) 514-1888WASHINGTON, DC - Attorney General Ashcroft announced today that the Justice Department is awarding $55 million to twenty states as the first round of this year's formula grants to prevent and respond to violence against women. This program is funded under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which will seek a $102.52 million increase in the Administration's budget for 2002.
"No American should feel outside the protection of the law, or beyond the reach of the law. With these grants, we will protect women and help develop coordinated responses to violence against women," said Ashcroft. "The funds will give law enforcement and victim services the resources they need to do a better job of investigating, prosecuting and preventing crimes against women. We must continue to provide our communities with the resources to hold offenders accountable and to meet the needs of victims."
The STOP (Services, Training, Officers and Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grants Program funds are used to promote partnerships among law enforcement, prosecution, the courts and victim advocates to ensure victim safety and accountability for offenders.
The Justice Department has awarded over $681 million in STOP funds since 1995, and over $1 billion under the VAWA grant programs since the enactment of the VAWA legislation in 1994. In the President's FY 2002 budget request, the Justice Department seeks $390 million in overall VAWA funding, a $102.52 million increase over FY 2001.
Through this funding, states and communities are urged to restructure and strengthen the criminal justice system response to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, utilizing the expertise of all participants working in the system, including victim advocates.
The STOP Program is authorized under the Violence Against Women Acts of 1994 and 2000. The STOP grants are awarded by the Office of Justice Programs' (OJP) Violence Against Women Office (VAWO) to designated state agencies, which must award 25 percent of the funds they receive to law enforcement, 25 percent to prosecution, 30 percent to victim services, 5 percent to courts and 15 percent at the state's discretion for other STOP program purposes. The remaining states will receive their FY 2001 STOP grants on a rolling basis throughout the rest of the fiscal year. A list of the FY 2001 STOP state grant allocations is attached.
More information about the STOP program and other initiatives involving violence against women issues is available on VAWO's Website at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo or OJP's Website at www.ojp.usdoj.gov, or by calling the National Criminal Justice Reference Service toll-free at 800/851-3420.
2001 STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FORMULA GRANTS
STATE ALLOCATIONS
|
STATE |
ALLOCATIONS |
| ALABAMA | 1,871,000 |
| ALASKA | 751,000 |
| ARIZONA | 1,918,000 |
| ARKANSAS | 1,340,000 |
| CALIFORNIA | 10,179,000 |
| COLORADO | 1,773,000 |
| CONNECTICUT | 1,555,000 |
| DELAWARE | 819,000 |
| DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | 751,000 |
| FLORIDA | 4,991,010 |
| GEORGIA | 2,867,000 |
| HAWAII | 944,000 |
| IDAHO | 960,000 |
| ILLINOIS | 4,131,000 |
| INDIANA | 2,330,000 |
| IOWA | 1,435,000 |
| KANSAS | 1,368,000 |
| KENTUCKY | 1,754,000 |
| LOUISIANA | 1,870,000 |
| MAINE | 964,000 |
| MARYLAND | 2,104,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS | 2,397,000 |
| MICHIGAN | 3,461,000 |
| MINNESOTA | 1,976,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI | 1,405,000 |
| MISSOURI | 2,189,010 |
| MONTANA | 841,000 |
| NEBRASKA | 1,082,000 |
| NEVADA | 1,118,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE | 950,000 |
| NEW JERSEY | 2,969,000 |
| NEW MEXICO | 1,059,000 |
| NEW YORK | 5,887,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA | 2,803,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA | 776,000 |
| OHIO | 3,878,000 |
| OKLAHOMA | 1,503,000 |
| OREGON | 1,554,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA | 4,094,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND | 888,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA | 1,731,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA | 796,000 |
| TENNESSEE | 2,196,000 |
| TEXAS | 6,420,000 |
| UTAH | 1,213,000 |
| VERMONT | 773,000 |
| VIRGINIA | 2,600,000 |
| WASHINGTON | 2,249,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA | 1,127,000 |
| WISCONSIN | 2,118,000 |
| WYOMING | 737,000 |
| PUERTO RICO | 1,735,000 |
| VIRGIN ISLANDS | 635,000 |
| GUAM | 644,000 |
| AMERICAN SAMOA. MARIANA* | 639,000 |
| TOTAL | 113,118,020 |
*American Samoa (67%) - $428, 130; and Northern Mariana Islands (33%) -$210,870.
State and Indian population figures are from the Bureau of Census 1999 report.
Except for the Virgin Islands, Indian population figures for the other territories are not available. Indian population figures for the Virgin Islands are from the 1990 Census.
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