Reporting requirements may differ depending on the funding source. If a local government agency receives an award subject to the Safe Streets Act from OVW or OJP and its components (and the agency meets other regulatory thresholds), then the recipient agency must prepare an EEOP Utilization Report that analyzes the workforce of the agency named as grantee on the official award document. For example, if BJA, an OJP component, makes a formula grant to a county, then the county should include an analysis of the entire county's workforce.
If a local law enforcement agency receives a direct award from COPS, it would analyze only its own workforce in developing an EEOP Report. For example, if a sheriff's department with more than 50 employees receives a COPS Office award of more than $25,000, it must prepare an EEOP Report that analyzes just the workforce of the sheriff's department (both sworn and civilian employees). However, if either a city or a county receives a COPS Office award, both the named grantee and the funded law enforcement agency must satisfy the EEOP requirement. For instance, if a city is the named recipient of a COPS Office grant award of $25,000 or more and the police department has at least 50 employees, both the city and the police department must comply with federal EEOP regulations. They could work together to develop a single EEOP Report, but the city and police department would each still have to complete a separate utilization analysis. Alternatively, the city and the police department could develop separate EEOP Reports.