Supervisor Don Knabe announced today the acceptance of a grant award from the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) that will pay for alcohol abuse and prevention programs that will be run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The State ABC grant to the Sheriff’s Department is in the amount of $276,154, and will be divided among the Lakewood, Lancaster, Norwalk, and Carson Sheriff’s Stations. The program, now in its fifth year at the Lakewood Station and in its second year at the Norwalk Station, will use trained Sheriff’s Deputies to identify and target problem businesses that are taking part in criminal activity, such as underage sales, and will work with ABC to deliver sanctions, if necessary.
The primary focus of the Alcohol and Beverage Control Program is to decrease the number of alcohol related offenses and DUI arrests made in Lakewood, Norwalk, and their surrounding cities.