---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12225"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12225"
heading: "Award of grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12225"
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"
---

# §12225. Award of grants


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall consider the following facts in awarding grants:

- (1) Demonstrated need and evidence of the ability to provide the [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) described in the plan required under [section 12223 of this title](/usc/34/12223.md).
- (2) The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall attempt, to the extent practicable, to achieve an equitable geographic distribution of grant awards.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31705, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1891.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13865 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.