Held every October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) is a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and to ensure that all Americans have the resources they need to be safer and more secure online. NCSAM 2019 emphasizes personal accountability and stresses the importance of taking proactive steps to enhance cybersecurity at home and in the workplace. This year’s overarching message—Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT.—focuses on key areas including citizen privacy, consumer devices, and e-commerce security.

The 2019 NCSAM Toolkit is a comprehensive guide that promotes positive, lasting cybersecurity habits.

The Tribal Access Program (TAP) provides federally recognized tribes with enhanced ability to access and exchange data with the national crime information databases for both criminal justice and noncriminal justice purposes. It also provides training and software and biometric/biographic kiosk workstations to process finger and palm prints.

To assist and educate interested tribes, TAP will host a TAP Overview webinar on Monday, October 28, 2010, at 2:00 p.m., ET. To register for this no-cost webinar, email TAP.App@usdoj.gov.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) helps to make American communities safer by strengthening the nation’s criminal justice system. BJA’s grants, training and technical assistance, and policy development services provide government jurisdictions (state, local, tribal, and territorial) and public and private organizations with the cutting-edge tools and best practices they need to support law enforcement, reduce violent and drug-related crime, and combat victimization.

BJA supports a wide suite of programs designed to help law enforcement. The following document provides information on these programs and includes both the associated websites and BJA policy leads.

To learn more about BJA, visit www.bja.gov, or follow BJA on Facebook (www.facebook.com/DOJBJA) and Twitter (@DOJBJA).

Over the past ten years, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, in partnership with CNA’s Institute for Public Research, has supported law enforcement agencies across the country in implementing innovative policing approaches through the Strategies for Policing Innovation Initiative (SPI, formerly the Smart Policing Initiative). SPI supports not only the development and implementation of innovative policing strategies, but also the research partnerships that result in in-depth analyses and rigorous evaluations of these strategies to advance what is known about effective and efficient policing practices. This report examines SPI’s accomplishments since its inception in 2009 and explores some of the major themes across SPI initiatives in both policing and policing research.

The sixth annual U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services “Community Policing in Action” Photo Contest is currently open and accepting submissions. This contest is an opportunity to visually share examples of community policing in action with other law enforcement and community stakeholders.

Each state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agency is invited to submit one photo that reflects the agency’s positive community engagement and trust building with community members, stakeholders, local government officials, and others.

Brief overview on how to enter a complete submission:

• Select or snap a photo that best conveys your agency’s community policing ethos. Horizontal images are preferred.
• Fill out the required Permission and Release to Law Enforcement Agencies Form and Privacy Consent, Waiver, and Release Authorizing Use and Disclosure of Photographic Image Forms for each recognizable individual.
• Write a brief description of the photo and how it reflects your department’s positive community engagement.

Submissions will be accepted through Monday, November 4, 2019, at 8:00 PM, ET.