COLUMBUS: Ohio is handing out more than $2.7 million to law enforcement agencies across the state for drug prevention education programs in public schools.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who announced the grants Wednesday, said 130 sheriffs’ offices and police departments will receive a share of the funding for the 2017-18 school year. The recipients are required to include over-the-counter and prescription drug abuse prevention education in their programs.
“The abuse of prescription drugs is one of the primary reasons behind the current opiate epidemic in Ohio, which is why it’s important that students receive age-appropriate lessons about the dangers of these and other drugs at an early age,” DeWine said in a prepared statement.
The following agencies in the Akron-area received grants:
• Barberton Police: $12,000.
• Brimfield Township Police: $10,013.50.
• Brunswick Police: $12,856.
• Copley Township Police: $11,312.
• Cuyahoga Falls Police: $2,250.
• Doylestown Police: $16,982.40.
• Louisville Police: $10,812.
• Medina County Sheriff’s Office: $77,265.68.
• Montville Township Police: $16,882.09.
• Norton Police: $11,095.
• Perry Township Police: $22,056.32.
• Portage County Sheriff’s Office: $33,908.16.
• Smithville Police: $6,912.
• Stark County Sheriff’s Office: $68,827.50.
• Streetsboro Police: $16,550.
• Summit County Sheriff’s Office: $77,324.
