Governor Glenn Youngkin announced $37.5 million in grants to support local criminal justice programs in the Commonwealth.

$6.8 million will go towards 86 school resource officers and 15  school security officers to support over 2000 Virginia public schools.

Additional grant awards will include support for gun violence prevention programs, juvenile delinquency prevention programs, and more.

These grants follow the Uvalde school shooting which was the 27th school shooting in the United States this year.