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Violent crime

FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program Supplemental Funding

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This program furthers the DOJ's mission to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name and fingerprint based criminal history background checks. This program was developed to implement Title III, Division B (3) Appropriations outlined in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act...

FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Training and Technical Assistance Program

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This program will support activities under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP), the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP), and portions of the recently enacted Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (Pub. L. 117 159) in fiscal year (FY) 2023. Direct technical assistance is provided to states, territories, and tribal jurisdictions to ensure that records systems are developed and managed...