Franklin County Sheriff’s Office receives grant for increased traffic safety enforcements

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ill. (KBSI) – The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office received a traffic enforcement grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation.

The grant for $12,656 will allow the sheriff’s office to conduct additional traffic safety enforcement efforts for the fiscal year of 2024 of the Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP). The money will supplement overtime pay to provide additional enforcement.

The program focuses on high-visibility enforcement and strategies aimed to save lives and prevent injuries by reducing traffic crashes, according to Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.

The grant year runs from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024. During this time, additional enforcement efforts will supplement mandatory and optional campaign enforcement dates scheduled during the deadliest times of the year.

The efforts will focus on the leading contributory causes of crashes: speeding, impaired driving, electronic device use, failure to yield and disobeying traffic control signals, as well as occupant restraint violations.

The STEP grant is funded by federal highway safety funds administered by the Illinois Department of Transportation.