Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

Last year the Sheriff's Office and Lincoln Public Schools together decided the DARE program that was currently being taught in the elementary grades would be expanded to include the middle school students.

As the DARE instruction expands, here are highlights of the program's evolutions since its inception in the 1980's.

DARE was created in Los Angeles in 1983 as it became clear that enforcemen...