CA Educ Code Section 49350.5

(a)

In order to ensure that students enrolled in the California public schools attend campuses that are safe, secure, orderly, and purposeful places in which students and staff are free to learn and teach without the threat of physical or psychological harm, it is the intent of the Legislature that two-year grants be provided to the ABC Unified School District and the Downey Unified School District to establish community policing school safety and mentoring programs.

(b)

Grants under this article shall be awarded in order to develop and implement a plan that accomplishes both of the following:

(1)

Provision for a continuum of responses to school safety needs by employees of school districts and local law enforcement agencies.

(2)

Demonstration of a collaborative and integrated approach for implementing a system of providing safe and secure school environments between the school districts and local law enforcement agencies.

(c)

Grant funds shall be expended as determined by the multiagency juvenile justice coordinating council, established pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 49351.

(d)

Grants under this article shall not be used to provide funding for school resource officers.