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Board approval for the Sheriff’s Office to execute and submit a grant application to the US Department of Justice for the FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program and authorize the Sheriff to sign future documents relating to the grant. Countywide (Lisa Spriggs, SCSO Chief of Administrative Services)
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Division:
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Sheriff's Office
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Authorized By:
Sheriff Dennis Lemma
Contact/Phone Number:
Lisa Spriggs/407-665-6617
Background:
The Department of Justice has released a Notice of Funding opportunity for the FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program. SCSO will be submitting an application for an immersive, adaptive, AI enabled training platform (The Matrix) to allow school safety personnel to train in an interactive training environment using real school facilities. The grant application will be for $1,000,000 with no required match.
Requested Action:
Staff requests board approval for the Sheriff’s Office to execute and submit a grant application to the US Department of Justice for the FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program and authorize the Sheriff to sign future documents relating to the grant.