Last year Eastin joined with Attorney General Bill Lockyer to form a statewide task force to look at ways to further combat crime in our schools. The task force will be releasing the results of its work in mid-March. Governor Gray Davis subsequently created a similar task force, in response to the tragedy at Columbine. That task force includes Eastin, Lockyer, and Frank Grimes, Executive Director of the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, and it is expected to report its results this April. Drug and alcohol offenses have the highest crime rate at high schools.
Property crimes are the most common crimes reported at elementary schools.