Your schools, in your words

Federal FY 2026 STOP School Violence Program, up to $1,000,000 for your county and the counties next door. This is the only thing we need from you. About twenty minutes. Talk or type. Press Done at the bottom and it goes to us. We confirm by email, and the planning tool formats your answers into the application kit for you to review, correct, and submit. Any hour, no meeting needed.

This grant can put every public school classroom in your county and your neighbors' counties on the same system, so a teacher who asks for help reaches your dispatch tied to the room, with a live stream, and the response you planned together goes to every deputy, in every county, at once. Your office leads; the other sheriffs join under you. This form collects your answers in your own words. From them, the planning tool formats and assembles the application kit and sends it back to you to review, correct, and submit.

Say it or type it

Voice works when you open this from the link. If you opened the attached copy or have no signal, type instead; everything else works the same. Press Start. I will ask you each question out loud. Answer like you are on the phone. Say "skip" to pass, "stop" to quit. Everything you say shows up below for you to check.

1. Your office

Usually the presiding commissioner or county judge.

Treasurer, auditor, or a grants person. They handle the money for the partner counties too.

Any federal money the county has handled: FEMA, USDA, DOJ, HHS. One of the most valuable answers on this form.

MyFlare Alert goes straight to the one that sends your deputies.

2. Eight questions. Say it or type it.

Every question has a Talk button. Press it, say it like you would on the phone, press it again to stop. Fix any word it got wrong. A federal reviewer reads dozens of these. The one he remembers has a real call in it, from your own records. Give one real incident or number per answer. Four to eight sentences. Don't describe the product; the kit carries the product facts. Describe your schools and your county.

What has happened at your schools

Answer in your own words, with your own numbers. Rough numbers are fine; say if they are rough.
  1. In the last three school years, how many threats, lockdowns, holds, and weapons incidents at the schools in your county?
  2. Any pursuits or people running from your deputies across school property?
  3. Tell one real event. What happened, and how long before a deputy was there?
  4. Which school worries you most, and why?

Calls to the schools, and how long it takes to get there

From your CAD or dispatch records if you have them.
  1. About how many calls for service to school addresses in each of the last three years?
  2. How long does it take a deputy to reach each school, and which is the farthest?
  3. When a deputy needs backup at a school, where does it come from, and how far away is it?

What the schools have today, and the last time it was used

Answer in your own words.
  1. How does a teacher reach you today: phone, intercom, radio, a panic app?
  2. The last time an alert went out, what share of staff actually got it, how long did it take, and what did not work?
  3. Has a district bought a safety system that failed, or that nobody supports any more?
  4. Do the districts have threat assessment teams, and is a deputy on them?

Why the districts cannot pay for this themselves

Plain and honest.
  1. What share of students are on free or reduced lunch?
  2. Has a bond passed or failed lately?
  3. What has the commission or a school board said about paying for safety?

How your counties already work together

This is the reason the counties apply together.
  1. Which sheriffs' offices back you up across the county line, and how often?
  2. Any mutual aid agreement, task force, or shared dispatch already in place?
  3. Do your deputies respond to schools in the next county, or theirs to yours?

What you want to be true in three years

Your goal, in your words.
  1. What should happen the next time a teacher in any of these counties asks for help?
  2. What do you want every deputy to know before he walks in?

How it keeps going after the grant

The grant runs three years. Reviewers want to know what happens in year four.
  1. Would the county carry the classroom licenses in its budget after that?
  2. Would you file the next grant to keep it going?

Anything else a federal reviewer should know

Answer only if something real applies. Leave it blank otherwise.
  1. A recent event people still talk about?
  2. A superintendent or chief who is ready to champion this?
  3. Letters you can get: the state sheriffs' association, state police, your dispatch director, a fire chief?

3. Your partners and your schools

The counties next door that would join under your application, and every public school district in all of them. Port Nexus has filled in what the public record gives; you fix what is wrong and add the sheriffs' names and whether they have said yes. Don't worry about classroom counts if you do not know them; we look them up. Nothing here commits anyone to buy anything.

4. Six quick checks

The federal application needs a Yes on all six. Check the box if all six are Yes, or answer each one. Answer from what you know; we check SAM.gov and the UEI with you before you file.

5. Check it and send it

Press Read it back and I will read every answer to you. Say "change" to redo one, "next" to keep it. Then press Done. It saves your file and opens an email to us with your answers in it. Attach the file, press send, and you are finished. We confirm by email, and the kit comes back to you for review.