Carson City School board approves officer resource grant

The Carson City School Board unanimously voted to accept the Sheriff’s Office School Resource Officer grant at the school board meeting Tuesday night. Recently, the Carson City Sheriff’s Department was awarded a $375,000 grant from the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing to be able to hire school resource officers for Carson City schools, but they needed approval from the School Board and Board of Supervisors to accept the grant. Sheriff Ken Furlong and Chief