The strategy developed by ABC involves education, prevention, enforcement activities, and collaboration to deal with alcohol-related crime. In 1995 ABC embarked on a new and innovative approach to broaden and increase the level of alcoholic beverage law enforcement in California by working in partnership with cities and counties through a grant program. The grant program is entitled Grant Assistance to Local law Enforcement (GALE). In 1995 several local law enforcement agencies in California received 25 grants of up to $100,000 each. One program, IMPACT, teams an ABC investigator with a uniformed local police officer in visits to licensed establishments in a given area to instruct them in the various ways they can participate in reducing alcohol-related crimes and how to comply with ABC rules and regulations. Another funded program is the Minor Decoy program, in which minors recruited by local police go into licensed establishments to attempt to purchase alcoholic beverages. If the decoy succeeds in purchasing an alcoholic beverage, a police officer and the decoy confront the seller within minutes of the sale and issue a citation to appear in State court. Another program, the License Education on Alcohol and Drugs (LEAD) program, is a 3-hour voluntary prevention and education training program provided at no cost to licensees, managers, and employees. Because of its initial success, the governor and the State legislature have continued to support the grant program through this fiscal year, with an additional $1.5 million proposed by the governor for fiscal year 1998-99. 13 notes