‘Maximizing our efforts’: Santa Clara County supervisors create office to prevent violence

SANTA CLARA COUNTY wants to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to addressing community violence. To accomplish this, county leaders plan to sink millions of dollars into a new initiative.

The Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Feb. 4 to create the Office of Community Violence Prevention and put aside $5 million, spread out over three years, toward coordinating and implementing policies to reduce violence. The office will strategize ways to address the root causes of violence and evaluate prevention efforts.