RENO, Nev. (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced a $2 million grant for Nevada from the Justice Department to help defray costs from the deadly shooting on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 1, 2017.
Most of the attention was on the Trump administration's immigration policy at a school safety conference in Reno where more than 200 protesters rallied outside.
But Sessions also underscored his department's continued efforts to make schools safer in his speech to the National Association of School Resource Officers.
In addition to $50 million in grants he announced earlier this month under the Stop School Violence Act, Sessions said Monday another $25 million will be spent for better training and technology to improve emergency reporting of threats at schools.
The $2 million for Nevada is on top of $1 million he announced in October.
Sessions praised the "heroic work done by police that day" and their ongoing efforts in the weeks afterward.