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SACRAMENTO (July 17, 2025) – Today, the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) awarded more than $24 million through two separate grant programs that support local government and tribal communities in their efforts to combat community gun violence, provide crisis intervention, and solve cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

The first grant award of over $11.2 million was provided through the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (Byrne SCIP), which now totals over $16.8 million. Authorized by the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Supplemental Act and funded through the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Byrne SCIP provides federal funding to implement state gun crisis intervention, court proceedings and related programs or initiatives, including, but not limited to, extreme risk protection order programs that work to keep firearms out of the hands of people in crisis who pose a threat to themselves or others, as well as mental health courts, drug courts, and veterans’ treatment courts.

A full list of Byrne SCIP grantees can be found here.

The second grant award of $12.93 million was provided through the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Grant Program, which now totals over $35 million statewide. Funded by the State of California Budget Act of 2024, this competitive grant is awarded to federally recognized Indian tribes in California and their local, law enforcement partners to support efforts to identify, collect case-level data, publicize, and investigate and solve cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people.

According to the National Institute of Justice, 83% of American Indian and Alaska Native women and men—which equates to over 2.9 million people—have experienced violence in their lifetime, with one in three experiencing violence in the last year. Nationally, those numbers are 52% higher than the general population. As noted by Governor Newsom’s Native American Heritage Month proclamation, California is home to the largest population of Native Americans in the United States.

A full list of MMIP grantees can be found here.

The BSCC provides services to county adult and juvenile systems through inspections of county jails and juvenile detention facilities, technical assistance on local issues, oversight for in custody death investigations, promulgation of regulations, training standards for local correctional staff, and the administration of a wide range of public safety, reentry, violence reduction, and rehabilitative grants to state and local governments and community-based organizations.

More information on the BSCC can be found by visiting www.bscc.ca.gov or by contacting Communications Director Jana Sanford-Miller, at Jana.Sanford-Miller@bscc.ca.gov.

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