biannually thereafter, the organization shall prepare 
and submit a report to the Secretary and Assistant 
Secretary containing such information as the Sec-
retary may require, including— 
(A) the use of grant funds; 
(B) an estimation of the number of people 
served through activities carried out using 
grant funds, including demographic information 
disaggregated by race, ethnicity, age, gender, 
disability status sexuality, ZIP Code, and socio-
economic status (where such information is rea-
sonably available and voluntarily provided); and 
(C) any relevant feedback received by such 
organization from the populations served by 
such organization regarding— 
(i) the efficacy of support from 
sources other than programs and services 
provided by such organization using grant 
funds; and 
(ii) additional resources and services 
needed by such populations with respect to 
improving community safety. 
(2) PRIVACY.—The report submitted to the 
Secretary and Division on Community Safety pursu-
ant to this section must protect the privacy of the 
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individuals served. All of the information gathered 
as part of the reporting process shall be aggregated, 
anonymized, and, except as required to be disclosed 
by State or Federal law, used only for the purposes 
listed in this section and shall not be used to initiate 
or contribute to any criminal, legal, immigration, or 
Child Protective Services actions of proceedings. 
(j) EVALUATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Division on Community 
Safety shall review and evaluate information pro-
vided in the reports submitted by organizations re-
ceiving funds under this section, and other informa-
tion available to the Division, including by con-
ducting data matching and other forms of data anal-
ysis, and periodically submit such analyses to the 
Secretary. 
(2) INCORPORATION OF ANALYSES.—The Sec-
retary shall incorporate analyses provided by the Di-
vision on Community Safety into decision-making re-
garding awarding additional grants under this sec-
tion. 
(k) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$4,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2026 
through 2030. 
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SEC. 202. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMUNITY SAFETY GRANT 
FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. 
(a) GRANT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—The Secretary 
shall award grants, on a rolling basis, to units of local 
government to assess safety needs, conduct research on, 
fund programming on, and otherwise support the develop-
ment of qualified approaches to community safety. 
(b) APPLICATION.—A unit of local government seek-
ing a grant under this section shall submit an application 
to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining such information as the Secretary may require, in-
cluding an assurance that the unit of local government 
shall develop, and submit to the Secretary, during the 
grant period, a safety needs assessment to guide local in-
vestments in qualified approaches to community safety. 
(c) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall give priority to a unit of local 
government that— 
(1) has taken steps toward, or is submitting 
proposals within the application for such a grant for 
purposes of— 
(A) increasing human liberty, including 
through measures that reduce incarceration, 
pretrial detention, arrests, criminal supervision, 
immigration detention, and other forms of 
criminal justice involvement; 
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(B) ending the criminalization of poverty, 
mental illness, homelessness, substance use, and 
related issues by addressing root causes of 
those issues rather than imposing criminal pun-
ishment and other punitive responses; or 
(C) ending racial, economic, gender, and 
other disparities in criminal punishment, and 
discipline in schools; 
(2) has a high rate of poverty, as well as dis-
proportionately high shares of residents who have 
been impacted by violence and the criminal legal sys-
tem (as determined by the Secretary and compared 
to the surrounding region); or 
(3) has prepared and developed the application 
submitted under this section in consultation with the 
community the unit of local government serves, espe-
cially individuals in such community who have been 
harmed by the criminal legal system. 
(d) USE OF FUNDS.—A unit of local government re-
ceiving funds under this section shall use such grant funds 
to carry out the following: 
(1) Establish or designate a community-led en-
tity that— 
(A) employs qualified approaches to com-
munity safety; and 
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(B) can coordinate and make investments 
in community safety, including by using 
participatory budgeting or other community-led 
processes. 
(2) Develop a safety needs assessment and cre-
ate an action plan targeted to address such safety 
needs. 
(3) Invest in programs, interventions, or policy 
initiatives that have a demonstrable connection to 
improving community safety, including programs 
interventions, or policy initiatives that are designed 
to address needs related to economic stability, sur-
vivor safety, physical and behavioral health, environ-
mental safety, housing stability, and educational eq-
uity and opportunity such as those listed in section 
201(d). 
(4) Train and hire community health workers, 
including individuals who are trained in first re-
sponse and violence prevention, who can help to ad-
dress such identified safety needs. 
(5) Administer programming, including via 
grants to community-based organizations and the di-
rect deployment of community health workers, to im-
plement the action plan. 
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