Austin was chosen to receive a $500,000 federal grant to put toward creating a “standardized firearm surrender protocol.' It has all involved parties on the same page.
Austin was chosen to receive a $500,000 federal grant to put toward creating a "standardized firearm surrender protocol." It has all involved parties on the same page.has been chosen to receive thousands of dollars in federal funding to reduce domestic violence.
"The goal is to make things seamless, where things are falling through the cracks," said Michelle Myles, manager of the Office of Violence Prevention."Austin and Travis County have been trying to implement a standardized surrender protocol for decades, but have not been able to do it," said Myles. "And so this protocol is designed to look at that place where gun violence and domestic violence meet because what the research [and] the data shows is that when there is a firearm present in domestic violence cases there's a five-fold increase in homicides," said Myles.Austin-Travis County receives federal funding to prevent domestic violence killings, injuries by firearms
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