Who can submit applications for SCAAP?
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is unable to approve applications for user accounts for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) for the fiscal year 2002 funding that are not submitted by a public official. SCAAP user accounts can be established for only one user per eligible jurisdiction and this user must be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or formal public official designee and/or program contact, able to bind the jurisdiction legally to the terms of the SCAAP program. A CEO may not delegate this responsibility to a non-public official or a public official outside his/her jurisdiction. An applicant may utilize whatever assistance it deems appropriate to gather needed information for the completion of the SCAAP on-line application and payment acceptance processes; however, it may delegate only to a public official within the applicant jurisdiction the responsibility for actually establishing user accounts and completing the on-line processes. By entering into the
