Full Notification

Folsom, Calif. – Folsom Police Department has begun the third and final fiscal year of its current STAKE grant term.

STAKE is the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Grant program which funds personnel time for sworn officers and administrative staff to perform tobacco education and enforcement activities.

It is illegal for a retailer in the United States to sell any tobacco product, including cigarettes, cigars, and e-cigarettes to anyone under 21.

Newly appointed Community Crime Suppression Unit Sergeant, Michael Grueneberg, will be coordinating and overseeing the final deliverables of this grant term including:
• Eight minor decoy operations.
• Nine shoulder tap operations.
• Fifteen (K-12) public school tobacco & vaping cessation presentations.

The grant programs will run until July 1, 2023.

Funding for this program is from the California Department of Public Health through the Food and Drug Branch Tobacco Enforcement Section. For more information see the California Healthcare, Research, and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016, Proposition 56.