Office of Justice Programs (OJP)

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) provides innovative leadership to federal, state, local and tribal justice systems, by disseminating state-of-the art knowledge and practices across America, and providing grants for the implementation of these crime-fighting strategies. Because most of the responsibility for crime control and prevention falls to law enforcement officers in states, cities, and neighborhoods, the federal government can be effective in these areas only to the extent that it can enter into partnerships with these officers. Please note, the confidentiality statute at 34 U.S.C. § 10231 (formerly 42 U.S.C. § 3789g),  prohibits the release of certain OJP records that are only collected for statistical purposes. This statute pertains to statistical information or data collected for research and protects such data from disclosure "information ... identifiable to any specific private person for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was obtained." FOIA Reference Guide FOIA Regulations