Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office submitted a letter of intent to the Office of the Governor requesting $115,750 in FY26 grant funding for a Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) Coordinator position. The role will focus on crime analysis, mining data from existing databases, researching best practices in violence reduction, and coordinating with enforcement supervisors and leadership to implement and evaluate targeted strategies. This is a 100% grant-funded position with no local match and no other identified funding sources above $50,000, indicating the agency’s dependence on external support to stand up this capability.The PSN Coordinator will also conduct surveys, focus groups, and stakeholder feedback sessions to strengthen community engagement and refine violence reduction initiatives, which may drive future needs for analytics tools, survey platforms, community engagement software, and training. Vendors offering crime analysis platforms, data integration, research/consulting on evidence-based strategies, or community engagement tools can position themselves as complementary resources as the grant is awarded and the Sheriff’s Office defines how this coordinator will operate and what tools they will need.

Grant #5411401; funding requested from the Texas Office of the Governor; position focuses on crime analysis, best practices research, and community engagement for violence reduction.