---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12221"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12221"
heading: "Grant authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12221"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part F — Community-Based Justice Grants for Prosecutors"
---

# §12221. Grant authorization

- (a) **In general—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may make grants to [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) tribal, or local prosecutors for the purpose of supporting the creation or expansion of community-based justice programs.
- (b) **Consultation—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may consult with the Ounce of Prevention [Council](/usc/34/11103.md?p=17) in making grants under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31701, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1890.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13861 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.