National Comprehensive Crime-Free Communities Act - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) make and monitor grants to grant recipients; (2) provide, through the offices of the National Crime Prevention Council, technical assistance and training, data collection, and dissemination of information on state-of-the-art research-grounded practices that the Attorney General determines to be effective in preventing and reducing crime, violence, and drug abuse; (3) provide for the general administration of programs authorized by this Act, the evaluation of this Act, and a comprehensive communication strategy to inform the public and State and local governments of such programs; (4) coordinate with other Federal agencies; and (5) establish a National Crime-Free Communities Commission, the National Center for Justice Planning, and a resource collection of best practices for State-wide community-based criminal justice planning.
Requires that programs carried out by States and local communities under this Act include a specialized focus on neighborhoods and schools disproportionately affected by crime, violence, and drug abuse.
Directs the Attorney General to award matching grants to: (1) at least 100 communities or the designee of a community of up to $250,000 per year for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of a program designed to prevent and reduce crime, violence, and substance abuse; and (2) each State criminal justice agency, Byrne agency, or other agency as designated by the Governor of that State and approved by the Attorney General of up to $400,000 per year to develop State capacity to assist local communities in such efforts.