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Center for Safe Schools outlines $5M grant program, mapping plans and panic‑button deployment
Summary
The Louisiana Center for Safe Schools briefed the task force on grant awards, a statewide mapping initiative and a statewide panic‑button contract in about 1,200 schools; officials said demand far outstrips current funding.
The Louisiana Center for Safe Schools told the K–12 School Safety Task Force that its grant program, mapping work and statewide safety technology are expanding but underfunded.
Director Jackie Manton said the center administers a $5,000,000 annual grants program for school safety projects and that demand far exceeded supply: the center received 583 applications this grant cycle and officials calculated about $28,000,000 worth of requests. “There is a need that the schools have,” Manton said. She told the task force the 2024 grant round left roughly $300,000 unspent and that the program has operated since the School Safety Act of 2023 established the center’s responsibilities.
Manton described three…
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