Healey praises Project Safe Neighborhood funding after Holyoke roundtable

Governor Maura Healey visited the EOPS Center in Holyoke for a public-safety roundtable and said state funding through the Commonwealth Project Safe Neighborhood initiative has supported law enforcement investigations and after-school programs and produced “nearly 500 arrests” and the seizure of “54 guns” in the first six months of 2025.

The governor said the state “takes that funding, we give it to departments, we give it to district attorney's offices, and they can do law enforcement work that they need to do,” and added that grants are also being used to fund youth programs at Boys & Girls Clubs and local YMCAs. “This is what we want. We want to maximize the return on that taxpayer dollar,” Healey said.

Why it matters: Healey and local leaders framed the PSN grants as a two-track approach—funding investigative work such as wire operations that local agencies cannot…