INDIANAPOLIS — Nearly $30 million will go to 494 schools and school systems across the state, thanks to Indiana Homeland Security's School Safety Initiative.

The schools that applied for the $27.1 million in grant money ranked categories for what its district needed the most, include school resource officers, technology, support services, firearm training for staff, design and construction, site vulnerability assessment, bullying prevention and a few others.

The majority of the money went toward funding school resources officers — nearly $19 million for 328 schools.

Counties, including several school districts in them, which received the most money are schools in Marion County, with more than three million dollars. Lake County received around $1.6 million, followed by Hamilton and Al

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