From the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security The Kentucky Office of Homeland Security is accepting grant applications for the FFY 2024 DHS/FEMA State Homeland Security Grant Program. Application Deadline April 12, 2024 The State Homeland Security Grant (SHSG) assists state, local, tribal, and territorial efforts to build, sustain, and deliver the capabilities necessary to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism. The SHSG Application portal is available at the KOHS website Kentucky Office of Homeland Security....

Registration is Open Safe Schools and Communities Conference June 11-12, 2024Great Crossings High School, Georgetown, KYHosted by the Kentucky Center for School Safety This two-day event is FREE OF CHARGE and is open to principals, law enforcement officers, school administrators, safe school coordinators, DPPs, and school personnel. Attendance at this conference includes membership in the Kentucky Association of School Resource Officers (KYASRO) and the Kentucky DARE Association for law enforcement participants. EILA credit is pending for educators. Keynote Speakers Jermaine...

From the desk of Lee Ann Morrison, Research Fellow, and Justice and Law Enforcement, Kentucky Center for School Safety SROs and SSCs, For the last few years, the Kentucky Center for School Safety has recognized several SRO programs across the state as an SRO Promising Program. This year we would like to recognize ONE program to be recognized with a monetary award ($1000) and recognition at the 2024 summer conference in Georgetown, KY.   Please note, if you are program has...

From the desk of Jon Akers, Executive Director of Kentucky Center for School Safety I wanted to personally invite you to our Annual Safe Schools and Communities Conference.  We have out-grown our Conference Center at EKU and have expanded this to a Great Crossings High School in Scott County.  I especially want to make sure that our principals know this conference is for their benefit AND their SROs.  All school campuses will eventually have SROs and we want to make certain...

The Kentucky Center for School Safety named Anderson County Schools one of only three 2023 Promising Programs in the commonwealth for their school resource officer (SRO) program. Anderson County Schools has had at least one SRO for about the past 20 years, the current SRO program at Anderson County Schools was developed as a partnership between the Anderson County Board of Education led by Superintendent Sheila Mitchell and the Anderson County Sheriff Office, Joe Milam, Sheriff in 2017. This program...

From The United States Secret Service The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) extends our deepest condolences to all communities impacted by targeted school violence. As part of its mission to prevent targeted violence, the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) has long maintained a particular focus on the safety of children in schools. To further advance this mission of protecting school communities, NTAC has released a video which highlights the findings and implications of its research on school...