Carson City Sheriff's Office applies for School Resource Officer grant
The following is from Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong regarding the agency's recent application of a grant to fund a school resource officer for the Carson City School District:
In keeping with the direction of the Board of Supervisors and the Carson City School Board support, the Sheriff’s Office has once again made application for a formal School Resource Officer Program through the office of Community Oriented Policing. The grant specifies the need to staff officers at our major schools, high school and two middle schools, at a total program cost of approximately $870K over a three year period. Submission of this grant was completed on Monday, and we anticipate having notification in September. If awarded, the grant would begin October 1.
For three years, we have not been selected to receive this highly competitive grant. Though missing the cut-off, I believe very strongly that the Sheriff’s Office support to the school district is a critical feature of public safety in this and every community. Most of us are aware of the severe incidents that we’ve had near our schools, and some may recall the violence that has bled out of the high school parking lot and resulted in a mountain-side shooting of a young high school boy. We cannot turn our backs and assume disaster won’t happen here.
The path that I’ve identified in the grant application proposes a “Triad” of cooperation between Juvenile Justice, the School District, and the Sheriff/District Attorney to invest in our future. Not only should we be insuring public safety, but just as well engage with students and mentor their success. An example of this philosophy is embedded in our Cadet/Explorer program. As we move with students throughout their education in K-12, we are enhancing the probability that they will go on to greater successes in life.
While the grant submission Vision is to insure a sense of physical and psychological safety in the schools, it also contains goals that are achievable. We intend to produce an environment where fewer students are arrested for violence committed upon each other, reduce the rate of truancy, and target those incidents in the schools that are so disruptive that it causes expulsion of the kids.
I am hopeful that this year will bring about a successful application. Should we achieve this, the year will be filled with setting up a practice of effective and efficient collaboration between the “Triad” agencies to meet the vision. I am confident we can build this; let’s keep our fingers crossed.
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