Department Of Justice Awards More Than $125 Million In Grants Under The Stop School Violence Act

WASHINGTON D.C. (CBS13) — The Department of Justice announced Thursday that the STOP School Violence Act volition supply astir $126 cardinal successful backing to amended schoolhouse safety.

The grants volition assistance institute information measures successful and astir superior and secondary schools, enactment schoolhouse unit prevention efforts, supply grooming to schoolhouse unit and students, and instrumentality evidence-based menace assessments.

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“The Justice Department has nary greater work than protecting Americans from harm,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Schools indispensable beryllium harmless places to learn, and today’s concern of much than $125 cardinal nether the STOP School Violence Act volition assistance guarantee that they are.”

The Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018 (the “STOP School Violence Act”) authorized the Justice Department to marque nonstop awards to states, section governments, Indian tribes, and nationalist agencies (such arsenic schoolhouse districts and instrumentality enforcement agencies) to amended information astatine schools and connected schoolhouse grounds by implementing evidence-based schoolhouse information programs. It besides offered backing to enactment a affirmative schoolhouse clime by assisting students and teachers successful recognizing, responding to, and preventing acts of violence.

“Every kid deserves a harmless puerility and that includes a harmless situation astatine school,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert.  “The grants that the Department of Justice announced contiguous volition assistance guarantee our students tin larn and thrive successful school.”

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The STOP School Violence Act consists of respective awards and grants, each with varying goals aimed astatine making our nation’s schools safer for students.

The implicit $74 cardinal successful yearly BJA awards volition money grooming and acquisition for schoolhouse workers and students connected preventing unit against others and themselves, including anti-bullying grooming and specialized grooming for schoolhouse officials to respond to intelligence wellness crises. Funding besides assists successful the enactment and implementation of interdisciplinary menace appraisal oregon involution teams, arsenic good arsenic the improvement of exertion solutions specified arsenic anonymous reporting systems, hotlines, and websites.

The COPS School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) funds up to 75% of schoolhouse information measures successful and astir simple and secondary schools. The astir $52 cardinal successful SVPP awards are required by instrumentality to beryllium utilized for coordination with instrumentality enforcement, grooming for section instrumentality enforcement officers to forestall pupil violence, locks, lighting, and different deterrent measures, exertion for expedited notification of section instrumentality enforcement during an emergency, and different security-related measures.

The afloat database of SVPP awards tin beryllium recovered here.

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A database of BJA awards, arsenic they are made, tin beryllium recovered connected the OJP Grant Awards page.

CBS13 Staff