The future of a Houston-area nonprofit dedicated to partnering police with teens to improve community policing is in doubt after President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice canceled the anti-hate grant that helped fund it.
Federal officials recently canceled around $387,600 in grants for the Teen and Police Service Academy, or TAPS, organization based in Houston, according to federal records. For a nonprofit serving more than 8,000 youth in 2024, the move makes it more difficult for it to remain operating through October, according to Everette Penn, executive director of the organization.
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