Funder: South Carolina Department of Public Safety (OHSJP)
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (New Agency Administrator Registration) | March 2027 (Application)
Funding Amounts: $10–$12 million administered annually statewide; projects awarded year-to-year; Law Enforcement Challenge grants up to $10,000
Summary: Supports new or expanded South Carolina highway safety programs that improve driver behavior and reduce collisions, injuries, and fatalities.
Key Information: Reimbursement funding: applicants must pay project expenses upfront and be able to wait 90 days for reimbursement.
Description
The Office of Highway Safety and Justice Programs (OHSJP) administers South Carolina’s federally funded State and Community Highway Safety (Section 402) Program. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funding supports new or expanded activities with a direct impact on driver behavior, collisions, injuries, and fatalities. Projects are intended to continue after grant funding ends.
Priorities include police traffic services, impaired driving countermeasures, highway safety education, and law enforcement community collaboration. Supported approaches include enforcement, officer and prosecutor training, DUI prosecution and paralegal assistance, court monitoring, judicial education, passenger safety, and education for young drivers, older drivers, and pedestrians. Applications must demonstrate a data-supported safety problem, a cost-effective response, measurable objectives, and an evaluation approach.
