This story was updated Feb. 15 at 9:16 a.m.
The Justice Department is sending out more than $200 million to help some states and the District of Columbia administer “red-flag laws” and other crisis-intervention programs as part of the landmark bipartisan gun legislation passed by Congress over the summer, officials said Tuesday.
Some of the $231 million in funding announced Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, will also go to crisis-intervention court proceedings and other gun-violence reduction programs. Some $7.5 million in funding will be sent to Georgia’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.
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