Safer Communities Act sends over $1 million to western Kentucky

Federal grants from the Safer Communities Act will see more than $1 million awarded to western Kentucky schools and education agencies.

Grants from the Department of Justice and their School Violence Prevention Program and the STOP School Violence Program include $200,160 headed to McCracken County Schools.

An additional $999,845 will go to the West Kentucky Educational Cooperative which serves 26 school districts across the western third of the state.

Other districts receiving shares of $7 million in DOJ grants for school safety include Leslie County, Fayette County, Johnson County, Barren County, plus the Kentucky Educational Development Finance Corporation.