AB 1559: Community engagement: gun violence prevention: grants.

Under existing law, the Office of Emergency Services contracts for and regulates specified programs addressing community violence prevention and conflict resolution.

This bill would create the Community Engagement and Gun Violence Prevention Grant Program to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies to allow those agencies to subscribe to gunshot detection technologies designed to aid law enforcement in responding to and preventing gun violence. The Office of Emergency Services would implement and maintain the grant program, as provided.