Monterey County Sheriff’s Office announced they have been awarded a $75,000 grant from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to help address alcohol related harm in the community.
The grant is designed to help strengthen local efforts to enforce California’s alcoholic beverage laws, such as preventing alcohol sales to minors and obviously intoxicated patrons as well as addressing illegal solicitations of alcohol and other crimes such as the sale and prevention of illegal drugs.
“This initiative is essential to improving youth safety and giving law enforcement the tools needed to confront and reduce criminal activity in known problem locations across Monterey County,” stated Sheriff Tina Nieto in a press release.
The grant is part of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control’s Alcohol Policing Partnership program, which awarded a total of $3 million to nearly 50 other grants to local law enforcement agencies across the state this year.
Since the partnership program’s founding in 1995, it has distributed more than $72 million to local law enforcement agencies.
“Our Alcohol Policing Partnership program can improve the quality of life in neighborhoods,” stated Alcoholic Beverage Control Acting Director Frank Robles in a press release. “The communities where the grant program’s resources have been invested have seen a real difference.”
