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Texas 2010 NIJ grants

Now that the federal FY 2010 has come and gone, here's an account of grants given to Texas recipients in the last year from the National Institute of Justice, compiled from this source:City of Austin, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $182,097 Houston PD Crime Lab, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $1,143,339 Bexar County, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $127,119 State of Texas, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $2,401320 Tarrant County, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $280,892 University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program:  $785,138 Harris County, Genetic Markers Associated With Sudden Unexplained Death or Sudden Infant Death: $254,521 UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Addressing Quality and Quantity; the Role of DNA Repair and Whole Genome Amplification in Forensically Relevant Samples: Center at Fort Worth      $363,613 Harris County, Independent Validation Test of Microscopic Analysis of Saw Marks in Bone: $26,409 Harris County: Gunshot Residue in a Non-Firearm-Related Detainee Population:      $88,837 Sam Houston State University, Development and Quantitative Evaluation of Steganalysis and Digital Forgery Detection System: $331,056 Southwest Research Institute, Reducing Uncertainty of Quantifying the Burning Rate of Upholstered Furniture: $497,688 Texas A&M Research Foundation, Development and Validation of Standard Operating Procedures for Measuring Microbial Populations for Estimating a Postmortem Interval: $476,348 University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth, The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project: Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing: $2,808,508 City of Austin, Police Department Forensic Science Improvement Program: $175,000 City of Fort Worth, Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program: $129,590 City of Lancaster, Lancaster Police Department Regional Crime Lab: $169,558 El Paso County Sheriff's Office, Paul Coverdell Forensic 2010 Grant: $175,000 State of Texas, Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant for Crime Laboratories: $1,828,254 Tarrant County, Histology Backlog Reduction Program: $67,136 Texas State University, Project Identification: Developing Accurate Identification Criteria for Hispanic Individuals: $151,325 Sheriff's Association of Texas, 1033 Program Support: $4,609,496 Sheriff's Association of Texas, Advancing Criminal Justice Policy, Practice and Technology ? Evaluation of Low-Cost Aviation Options for Law Enforcement: $485,146I may have missed a couple but those are the ones I identified where money came to Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).