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Santa Clarita to Apply for Grant to Increase Safety

The city of Santa Clarita will apply for a $35,545 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant. The grant offered through the Bureau of Justice Assistance supplements existing community safety resources provided by the city. Programs that are being proposed for funding include curfew sweeps, graffiti enforcement, truancy sweeps, bike patrols, surveillance, undercover and sting operations and probation/parole enforcement. Resources would also be used to address some of the Attorney General’s priorities, including gang enforcement and prevention, school safety and multi-jurisdictional task forces addressing violent crimes and drugs. The grant would fund approximately 475 overtime hours for the Sheriff’s Community Interaction Team to allow CIT to conduct the proposed operations in addition to their normal duties and would supplement community policing and law enforcement efforts in the city.

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