ISD applies for school resource officer grant

Members of the St. Joseph County Intermediate School District Board of Education agreed to apply for a school resource officer grant.

ISD superintendent Teresa Belote said the competitive grant is worth $25 million across the state of Michigan. It requires grantees to provide a 50 percent cash match for approximately three years.

Belote said she spoke to St. Joseph County Sheriff Mark Lillywhite and that his department would partner with the ISD. A school resource officer must be contracted through a police agency, she said.