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Sheriff’s office wins committee sign-off to apply for multiple public-safety grants including SRO and victim-services funding
Summary
The justice committee approved sheriff’s office applications for a package of grants — school resource officer grants for multiple schools, training and equipment grants, Victims of Crime Act funds, Violence Against Women Act funding, and DUI enforcement reimbursements — with several requiring operating transfers or in‑kind matches.
Lexington County’s justice committee approved motions to allow the sheriff’s office to apply for a series of state and federal grants to fund school resource officers, training, victim services and impaired-driving enforcement.
Captain Lee Marshall outlined multiple applications and their funding implications. For Lexington School District 1 the sheriff’s office sought $314,171 in state SRO grant funding; the committee was told the county would make an operational transfer of $15,280 to cover costs the grant does not cover and that the…
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