CUYAHOGA, COUNTY OF
Total received in grants · trailing 12 months
$5.0M
$0for every U.S. household÷ 131M U.S. households
In perspective
0.0%of all $162.9B in tracked grants
2separate grants, trailing 12 months
CUYAHOGA, COUNTY OF has received $5.0M across 2 federal grants of $1M or more on record.
Data as of July 24, 2026. Source: USAspending.gov, prime contract awards $1M+. Federal spending data lags and has known gaps. This is not a real-time or complete record.
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| Department of Justice | THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT KIT TASK FORCE (TASK FORCE), LED BY THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY PROSECUTORS OFFICE (CCPO), HAS COMPLETED INVENTORYING, TESTING, AND INVESTIGATING OVER 7,000 UNTESTED AND PARTIALLY TESTED SAKS COLLECTED IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY. THE TASK FORCE COMPLETED 7,026 INVESTIGATIONS AND INDICTED 890 UNIQUE DEFENDANTS. ONLY 14 PROSECUTIONS REMAIN ACTIVE (EXCEEDING THE 2023 SAKI PURPOSE AREA 6 REQUIREMENT THAT 75% OF THE DOWNSTREAM ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED). THE TASK FORCE NOW SEEKS FUNDING TO EXPAND BEYOND SEXUAL ASSAULTS TO TACKLE ALL UNSOLVED VIOLENT CRIMES IN CLEVELAND. A PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF VIOLENT CRIME DATA MANAGED BY THE CCPO REVEALS 29,982 VIOLENT CRIME INCIDENTS BETWEEN 2017 AND 2022. ANALYSES CONDUCTED BY PROPOSED RESEARCH PARTNER DR. RACHEL LOVELL (CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY) INDICATE THAT ONLY 39% OF THESE INCIDENTS INITIALLY INCLUDED A NAMED SUSPECT, SUGGESTING THE MAJORITY REMAIN UNRESOLVED. THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY REGIONAL FORENSIC LABS (CCRFSL) SUBMISSION POLICY PERMITS ONE SUBMISSION AT A TIME. SUBSEQUENT SUBMISSIONS ARE PERMITTED IF INITIAL RESULTS ARE NOT PROBATIVE. THE TASK FORCE REVIEWED OVER 1,000 CASES INVOLVING EVIDENCE SUBMITTED TO THE CCRFSL BETWEEN 2012 AND 2019 AND DISCOVERED THAT PERMISSIBLE SUBSEQUENT SUBMISSIONS ARE FREQUENTLY NOT SUBMITTED, SUGGESTING THAT SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF PROBATIVE EVIDENCE CONNECTED TO UNSOLVED VIOLENT CRIMES REMAINS UNTESTED. TO FULLY LEVERAGE EVIDENCE FROM UNSOLVED VIOLENT COLD CASES, WE PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING GOALS: (A) CONDUCT AN INVENTORY OF UNSOLVED VIOLENT CRIMES IN CLEVELAND; (B) IDENTIFY AND LOCATE EVIDENCE FROM UNRESOLVED VIOLENT CRIMES; (C) SUBMIT EVIDENCE FOR FORENSIC ANALYSIS, UP TO AND INCLUDING FGG; (D) INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE FORENSIC LEADS; AND (E) CONDUCT, DOCUMENT, AND DISSEMINATE RESEARCH AND EVALUATION ON THE PROCESS AND OUTCOME OF THESE EFFORTS. THESE GOALS WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH THE FOLLOWING DELIVERABLES: (A) CONDUCT AN INVENTORY, SUBMIT FORENSIC EVIDENCE, INVESTIGATE CODIS HITS AND FAMILIAL SEARCH/FGG LEADS, AND PROSECUTE RESULTING INDICTMENTS USING EXPERIENCED SAKI PERSONNEL; (B) EVALUATE THE PROCESS AND OUTCOMES OF THE TASK FORCES EFFORT TO SOLVE VIOLENT COLD CASES VIA INDEPENDENT RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY; (C) DOCUMENT AND DISSEMINATE RESEARCH VIA SCHOLARLY RESEARCH PRODUCTS, PRESENTATIONS, AND TRAININGS; (D) ENHANCE TASK FORCE COMPETENCIES AND CAPABILITIES THROUGH CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TRAINING RELATED TO VICTIM-CENTERED PRACTICES AND ADVANCED DNA METHODOLOGIES; (E) ENTER ELIGIBLE CASES INTO VICAP TO SOLVE ADDITIONAL CRIMES; AND (F) CREATE A SOFT INTERVIEW ROOM FOR VICTIMS/SURVIVORS. | $2,500,000 |
| Department of Justice | THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT KIT (SAK) TASKFORCE, LED BY THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE (CCPO), HAS COMPLETED INVESTIGATING ALL 7,024 PREVIOUSLY UNTESTED SAKS COLLECTED IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY BETWEEN 1993 AND 2011, RESULTING IN OVER 800 NEW INDICTMENTS. HOWEVER, ADDITIONAL WORK REMAINS TO IDENTIFY SEXUAL OFFENDERS IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY. SEX OFFENDERS, INCLUDING SERIAL SEX OFFENDERS, REMAIN UNIDENTIFIED. IN OVER 180 STRANGER SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY, DNA TESTING RESULTED IN A COMBINED DNA INDEX SYSTEM (CODIS) UPLOAD, BUT THERE WAS NO RESULTING “HIT” TO A NAMED OFFENDER. TO DATE, THE CCPO HAS INDICTED 182 JOHN DOE DEFENDANTS AND HAS USED OR WILL USE 2019, 2020 AND 2021 SAKI FUNDING TO APPLY FORENSIC GENETIC GENEALOGY (FGG) TO UP TO 50 OF THEM. THE CCPO SEEKS 2022 SAKI FUNDING TO APPLY FGG TO ADDITIONAL JOHN DOE DEFENDANTS AND TO SEXUALLY MOTIVATED HOMICIDES WITH A DNA PROFILE IN CODIS BUT NO HIT. SECOND, THE CLEVELAND POLICE DEPARTMENT (CPD)’S SEX CRIMES UNIT HAS ADDITIONAL SAKS (COLLECTED FROM 2012 FORWARD) THAT NEED RE-INVESTIGATION. WITH PRIOR SAKI AWARDS, WE ARE RE-INVESTIGATING OVER 1,600 SAKS COLLECTED BY CPD BETWEEN 2012 AND 2019. THE FORENSICS IN MANY OF THESE SAKS WERE NOT FULLY LEVERAGED. TO DATE, THIS PROJECT HAS RESULTED IN OVER 30 NEW INDICTMENTS. THE CCPO SEEKS 2022 SAKI FUNDING TO COMPLETE THESE RE-INVESTIGATIONS OF MORE RECENT CPD SAKS. THIRD, THE CCPO SEEKS TO INTERVIEW SOME OF ITS MOST PROLIFIC SERIAL SEX OFFENDERS IN ORDER TO GATHER INFORMATION ON ADDITIONAL OFFENSES COMMITTED AS WELL AS OTHER ASPECTS OF THEIR OFFENDING (E.G., FORENSIC AWARENESS, VICTIM AND SITE SELECTION DECISION-MAKING). TO FULLY LEVERAGE THE EVIDENCE CONTAINED IN THE SAKS TO IDENTIFY AND PROSECUTE SEXUAL OFFENDERS, THE CCPO PROPOSES THE FOLLOWING GOALS: (A) UTILIZE ADVANCED DNA METHODOLOGIES TO IDENTIFY VIOLENT SEXUAL OFFENDERS, (B) INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE LEADS PRODUCED FROM ADVANCED DNA METHODOLOGIES IN AN EVIDENCE-BASED, VICTIM-CENTERED MANNER; AND (C) LEVERAGE OUR EXPERIENCES TO INFORM PRACTICES LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY. THESE GOALS WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH THE FOLLOWING DELIVERABLES: (A) INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND SEXUALLY MOTIVATED HOMICIDES; (B) ASSESS “LESSONS LEARNED” VIA INDEPENDENT RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY; (C) DOCUMENT AND DISSEMINATE PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES; (D) ENHANCE TASKFORCE COMPETENCIES AND CAPABILITIES THROUGH CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TRAINING ON VICTIM-CENTERED PRACTICES AND ADVANCED DNA METHODOLOGIES; AND (E) CONTINUE ENTERING CASES INTO VICAP. | $2,500,000 |