AnonymousBy the Office of Rep. Salud Carbajal
Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal announced a new $159,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for the Guadalupe Union School District to improve school safety and protect Central Coast students.
The federal funding allocated from the Justice Department’s School Violence Prevention Program will support construction of a new entryway at Kermit McKenzie Intermediate School, the purchase of new radios for school administrators, and the implementation of improved identification systems for school visitors.
“As a father and grandfather, I know the concern that every parent feels sending their child off to school–especially as school violence and campus shootings have become all-too-common in our nation. That’s why I voted to help deliver federal grants to schools so that they can take steps to improve the safety procedures and processes on our campuses, and why I’m proud to see some of that funding coming back to the Central Coast this year,” said Rep. Carbajal.“Each and every student deserves to have a safe and supportive learning environment, and every parent deserves the piece of mind that their children are protected.”
“The federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Grant will provide the Guadalupe Union School District with the funds needed to significantly improve the safety and security of our schools,” said Guadalupe Union School District Superintendent Dr. Emilio Handall. “These funds will be used specifically to construct a more secure entry to McKenzie Intermediate School, as well as purchase emergency communication devices for all staff. Additionally, each school will now have a device that will create ID badges for all guests and digitally track each guest’s entrance and exit from each school. We are incredibly excited to receive this funding that will be put to use immediately to protect our staff and students.”
In 2018, Rep. Carbajal helped create the School Violence Prevention Program by voting to pass the bipartisan Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018 (STOP School Violence Act of 2018). This law made annual grants available to states, school districts, and tribal organizations to bring evidence-based programs and strategies to schools to prevent acts of violence.
Earlier this year, Rep. Carbajal joined a bipartisan majority in Congress to allocate an additional $200 million to the School Violence Prevention Program through the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act–the federal gun safety legislation signed into law earlier this year.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act included multiple provisions to reduce gun violence and keep American schools and communities safe, including $750 million set aside for states to create and administer ‘red flag’ laws and other measures that can keep guns out of the hands of those who are deemed to be a threat to themselves or others – an investment first proposed through Rep. Carbajal’s Extreme Risk Protection Order Act.
Rep. Salud Carbajal represents California’s 24th congressional district, encompassing Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and part of Ventura County. He sits on the House Armed Services Committee, Agriculture Committee, and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he serves as the Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Salid, OH THANK YOU SO MUCH… For voting how Nancy Pelosi TELLS you to vote… Thanks for contributing to our open border with more than 2.5 MIILION that are known to have come illegally the last 19 month and who knows how many MILLION or more under the radar… Thanks for contributing to the 100,000’s of Americans, most under 35 years old, who are DEAD thanks to fetanyl overdoses due to these killer drugs coming over the Southern border… Thanks for restricting and penalizing our petroleum industry so we are now DEPENDENT on FORIEGN OIL (that is not refined to U.S. EPA standards.) You’ve done so much to make stretching our dollars fall so short…
Per DHS 900,000 known “gotaways” in the past two years. Note that is KNOWN, i.e. spotted but not caught, and doesn’t include all that went through undetected. They’re estimated cartel’s are making BILLIONS of dollars a year off human trafficking/smuggling, that doesn’t even include the drug trade! Then, we’re limiting domestic oil production and have to rely on buying more oil from OPEC+ countries. Between the cartels human trafficking and OPEC+’s oil, current US policy is funneling billions upon billions of dollars into the pockets of some the most brutal and dangerous regimes / organizations on the planet.
Have either of you ever heard the Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf?” The cons have been trying to scare the socks off of old white people since Reagan. The sky hasn’t fallen yet, terrorists haven’t killed us all, the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for never happened, Captain Cheetoh helped lose the War on Drugs. Funny how as soon as the Potus changes you folks can’t stop whining. As if the president has some magic power to make systemic longterm problems disappear.
Lol my family used to live in Lompton and people there called it worse. At least he’s not babbling about space lasers and the deep state or being indicted.