U.S. Attorney Keefe Announces More Than $83 Million Available To Support School Safety

TALLAHASSE, FLORIDA – Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida,
today announced that communities across northern Florida are eligible to apply for a portion of
more than $83 million in Department of Justice grants nationwide to help communities, including
those across northern Florida, improve school security and protect students, teachers, and faculty
from threats of violence.

“School violence is no longer an abstract threat but has become a tragic reality in too many of
America’s communities. Moving to meet this challenge is among the Administration’s top domestic
priorities,” said Katharine T. Sullivan, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office
of Justice Programs (OJP). “The Department of Justice is front and center in the fight to meet this
challenge. OJP is making historic amounts of grant funding available to ensure that our communities
have access to innovative and diverse solutions.”

“Even here in Northern Florida, our children are not free from the threat of school violence. By
seeking funding from this grant program, our communities can take bold steps forward to keep safe
our children and the teachers and others who work every day to educate them in a safe, nourishing
environment,” added U.S. Attorney Keefe.

The funding is available through OJP, the federal government’s leading source of public safety
funding and crime victim assistance in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions. OJP’s programs
support a wide array of activities and services, including programs designed to tighten school
security and improve the reporting of threats.

A number of funding opportunities for school safety are currently open, with another opening in the
near future:
       Research and Evaluation on School Safety
       https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17308
       Total Available $5 million                                         Deaddline 4/13/2020

       STOP Act School Violence Program (FY20)
       https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17308
       Total Available $71.4 million                                    Deadline 4/13/2020

       Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence
       https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/ojjdp-2020-17926
       Total Available $7 million                                         Deadline 4/27/2020

For more information regarding all OJP funding opportunities, visit
https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities.

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