2023 District of Columbia Code › Title 4 - Public Care Systems › Chapter 5 - Victims of Crime › Subchapter V - Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants Transparency › § 4–571.01. Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants transparency

§ 4–571.01. Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants transparency.
(a) Beginning on September 30, 2022, and every 6 months thereafter, the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants ("OVSJG") shall publish the following information, for the current fiscal year, on its website:
(1) For all grants or sub-grants awarded to or received by OVSJG:
(A) The funding source and amount received;
(B) The date the grant or sub-grant was awarded or received;
(C) The duration of the grant or sub-grant;
(D) A description of the permissible uses of, or restrictions on, the grant or sub-grant and the source of those uses or restrictions; and
(E) The remaining balance of the grant or sub-grant.
(2) For all grants or subgrants awarded by OVSJG:
(A) The name of the grantee or sub-grantee to whom the grant or sub-grant was awarded;
(B) The funding source and amount awarded;
(C) The date the grant or sub-grant was awarded;
(D) The duration of the grant or sub-grant; and
(E) A description of the permissible uses of, or restrictions on, the grant or sub-grant and the source of those uses or restrictions.
(b) The Mayor shall, when submitting to the Council an annual budget for the District of Columbia government as described in § 1-204.42, publish, at a minimum, the following information regarding the proposed budget for OVSJG on a publicly accessible website:
(1) The agency's grantmaking priorities for the proposed budget;
(2) For the Victim Services division, anticipated grant funds budgeted for each agency grantmaking priority within the division, including:
(A) Implementation of the Sexual Assault Victims' Rights Act of 2014;
(B) The housing continuum of care for victims of crime, including emergency shelters, short-term housing, and transitional housing, broken down by whether the funding or housing is tied to specific:
(i) Categories of crime, such as domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, or violent crime; or
(ii) Vulnerable populations, such as LGBTQ individuals;
(C) Hospital-based violence intervention programs; and
(D) Non-residential direct services for victims of crime, broken down by whether the funding is tied to specific:
(i) Categories of crime, such as domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, or violent crime; or
(ii) Vulnerable populations, such as LGBTQ individuals;
(3) For the Justice Grants division, anticipated grant funds budgeted for each agency grantmaking priority within the division, including:
(A) The housing continuum of care, including emergency shelters, short-term housing, and transitional housing, for returning citizens or other justice-involved populations; and
(B) Non-residential direct services for returning citizens or other justice-involved populations; and
(4) Anticipated grant funds budgeted for all other agency grantmaking priorities.
(Sept. 21, 2022, D.C. Law 24-167, § 3022, 69 DCR 009223.)
Emergency Legislation
For temporary (90 days) creation of this section, see § 3022 of Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2022 (D.C. Act 24-470, July 13, 2022, 69 DCR 008707).