Public Safety

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting the Senate confirmation of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, a friend and former colleague in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice of a grant of $100,036 from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for the American Samoa Criminal Justice Planning Agency (CJPA) led by Director Mariana Timu-Faiai. These formula grant funds are for the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention program, with four years remaining in the project period. 

Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice of $470,821 for the American Samoa Department of Public Safety from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

This State Electronic Data Collections (SEDC) crash data grant will support Island Wide Traffic Safety Information System (ITSIS). 

Historic Nomination for American Samoa 

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming the announcement that President-elect Trump will nominate former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who was born in American Samoa and represented Hawaii in Congress, to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a position in the Cabinet of the President of the United States.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata visited and thanked American Samoa’s firefighters over the weekend where they are stationed in California’s wildfire camp. Aumua Amata gave remarks in Samoan, observed a briefing and joined them for a meal, and the firefighters took time for a prayer and a hymn.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata emphasized and supported a Resolution by the American Samoa Senate by sending it to the leadership of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to highlight its message.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata attended last week’s 30th anniversary celebration of the groundbreaking 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which provided protections and support for victims of domestic violence, and is funded by Congress annually with bipartisan support.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice of $617,851 in federal funds for the STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program under the leadership of CJPA Director Mariana Timu-Faiai.