High School Wins State Crime Prevention Grant
Moorpark High School was awarded a $311,000 state grant Tuesday to continue its campus crime prevention program.
Of 144 applications submitted for the state attorney general’s School Community Policing Partnership grants, Moorpark High was one of 35 schools selected from across California and the only recipient in Ventura County.
The high school was awarded the same grant in 1999.
Juanita Suarez, who runs prevention programs for Moorpark Unified School District, said Tuesday that the money will be used to pay part of the salary of a sheriff’s deputy stationed at the high school and that of a soon-to-be-hired community liaison worker.
The deputy and the community liaison will work together to link at-risk students with services available in the community, she said. At-risk students can be those needing help dealing with violence or drugs to those seeking after-school programs or jobs.
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