Montgomery, AL –Governor Kay Ivey announced today on Monday, 2/6/23, the beginning of Sheriffs’ Grants to the entire state of Alabama’s 67 counties.
The sheriff’s departments of every one of the state’s 67 counties will receive money every quarter starting in the very first quarter in 2023. The amount of money each county will receive is determined by the money the county sheriff’s departments collected from permits for pistols in 2022.
“A two of the fundamental tenets in the Ivey Administration is that we believe in blue in the strongest manner possible , and we are committed to the protection of the rights of our people’s Second Amendment rights. We have modified Alabama law to aid gun owners, we’ve also made sure that our sheriffs got their crucial funds. I am happy to say that the grants achieve this ,”said Governor Ivey. “The Sheriffs Grants will give them funds for training, equipment and other items not funded by county commissions as part of their annual budgets. We are proud of supporting the crucial work that sheriffs’ department does on a every day basis.”
According to the Local Government Pistol Permit Revenue Loss Fund, Alabama sheriffs must show the loss of funds from the pistol permit in 2022 based on the figures. It is the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs makes payments to sheriff’s offices in accordance with reports from different state organizations.
“ADECA plans to fulfill the responsibilities we have in this regard in order to make sure that the Alabama’s sheriff’s offices are reimbursed for losses, based on the gaps in the figures,” said Director Kenneth Boswell.
ADECA runs a range of programs that support traffic safety, law enforcement economic development and conservation of energy water resource management, and recreational development.
