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Wearing a bright safety vest with the words “Safe Passage” on the back, Tatiana Alabsi strides through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to its only public elementary school, navigating broken bottles and stained sleeping bags along tired streets that occasionally reek of urine. Along the way in one of America’s most notorious neighborhoods, she calls out to politely alert people huddled on sidewalks, some holding strips of tin foil topped with illicit drugs.

The program places at least two volunteers at school dismissal in an effort to monitor potential dangers as students walk home.

The Safe Passage program currently serves 50 schools in the District by providing workers that oversee the safety of students off campus.

The Taylorville Kiwanis Club heard about the Safe Passage Program to assist those with drug or alcohol addiction, and inducted a new member, during their weekly meeting at the Taylorville Moose Lodge...

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Baltimore Mayor Scott provides update on crime reducing program

Mayor Muriel Bowser, Police Chief Robert Contee and ANC commissioners from all over the city had a two-hour meeting Saturday about to gun violence.

One year has passed since former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took on a new role as the United States Ambassador to Japan.      

The Safe Passage Program has been operated by the Long Beach Police Department for almost 20 years and has provided a presence near schools to try to decrease fights and other illegal activity for some area schools.

"Families need to know that there is a plan to keep their students safe" when they return to school Monday, CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said.

The new school year starts unusually early in CPS, which typically begins school the day after Labor Day.