ABC announces 2025-26 APP Grant recipients

Sacramento – The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) announced that it is awarding nearly $3 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year to 47 local law agencies to assist their fight against alcohol-related crime in California.

ABC will administer grants to local police and sheriff’s departments through its Alcohol Policing Partnership Program (APP). The APP Program was created in 1995 to strengthen partnerships between ABC and local law enforcement agencies in order to address problem businesses, keep alcohol away from minors, and bring penalties such as fines, suspensions or revocations against businesses that violate the law.

The funds will be used to reduce the number of alcohol sales to minors, obviously intoxicated patrons, and other alcohol-related crime that negatively impact communities.

“Too many young people are killed in alcohol-related incidents every year,” said ABC Acting Director Frank Robles. “If we can limit youth access to alcohol, and prevent service to obviously intoxicated patrons, then we can save lives and strengthen communities.”

The APP Program has distributed more than $72 million to local law enforcement to combat alcohol-related crime since it was created 30 years ago.

ABC protects communities through education, and by administering prevention and enforcement programs designed to increase compliance with California’s alcoholic beverage laws.

The local law enforcement agencies who have been selected by ABC to receive grant funding are as follows:

• Anderson Police Department
• Bakersfield Police Department
• Berkeley Police Department
• Buena Park Police Department
• Chula Vista Police Department
• Clovis Police Department
• Chico State Police Department
• Delano Police Department
• Downey Police Department
• El Centro Police Department
• El Dorado Sheriff’s Office
• Emeryville Police Department
• Eureka Police Department
• Fontana Police Department
• Fullerton Police Department
• Huntington Park Police Department
• Huron Police Department
• Inglewood Police Department
• Kings County Sheriff’s Office
• La Mesa Police Department
• Long Beach Police Department
• Los Angeles Police Department
• Manteca Police Department
• Marysville Police Department
• Merced Police Department
• Modesto Police Department
• Monterey County Sheriff’s Office
• Mountain View Police Department
• Nevada County Sheriff’s Office
• Oceanside Police Department
• Ontario Police Department
• Orange County Sheriff’s Office
• Oxnard Police Department
• Rancho Cordova Police Department
• Redding Police Department
• Redlands Police Department
• Riverside Police Department
• San Bruno Police Department
• San Diego Police Department
• San Fernando Police Department
• San Luis Obispo Police Department
• San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office
• Santa Clara Police Department
• Santa Maria Police Department
• Upland Police Department/Claremont Police Department
• Watsonville Police Department
• Westminster Police Department

Contact

Additional information may be obtained by contacting:

Public Information Office
3927 Lennane Drive, Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95834
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (916) 419-2525

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