Onondaga County Funds for School Security, New York 2023

Syracuse, NY – The Justice Department announced it has awarded more than $85.3 million to bolster school security, including funding to educate and train students and faculty, and support first responders who arrive on the scene of a school shooting or other violent incident.

Attorney General William P. Barr said, ‘These federal resources will help to prevent school violence and give our students the support they need to learn, grow, and thrive. By training faculty, students and first responders, and by improving school security measures, we can make schools and their communities safer.’

United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York Grant C. Jaquith stated, ‘The safety of our schools is a critical public safety priority. These federal funds will help school districts in Onondaga County enhance their efforts to prevent school violence and address mental health crises effectively, with staff training and youth activities that will facilitate their focus on teaching and learning.’

The STOP School Violence Prevention and Mental Health Training Program included a grant of $249,989 in funding to prevent violence in Onondaga County schools. President Trump signed the STOP School Violence Act into law in March 2018, authorizing grants that are designed to improve threat assessments, train students and faculty to provide tips and leads, and prepare law enforcement officers and emergency professionals to respond to school shootings and other violent incidents.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance, within the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs, and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services manage the programs and administer the grants, which include funds to develop school threat assessment teams, pursue technological solutions to improve reporting of suspicious activity in and around schools, and provide training and technical assistance to schools and other awardees in helping implement these programs.

The Office of Justice Programs, directed by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Katharine T. Sullivan, provides federal leadership, grants, training, technical assistance and other resources to improve the nation’s capacity to prevent and reduce crime, assist victims and enhance the rule of law by strengthening the criminal justice system. The Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services advances community policing nationwide, providing grants to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of officers and provide knowledge resource products including publications, training and technical assistance.

Onondaga County’s school districts will use the $249,989 grant to enhance their efforts to prevent school violence and address mental health crises effectively, with staff training and youth activities that will facilitate their focus on teaching and learning.

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