Despite school violence being at its lowest rate in a decade, the Justice Department is enticing schools to participate in programs that would develop new methods of surveillance targeting students. The Justice Department's “School Safety Technologies” grants are being distributed to schools that develop integrated physical security systems, bus-fleet monitoring systems, low-level force devices and school safety training. The call for grant proposals from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a division of the Justice Department, is offering the money as a way of "to protect the students, teachers, school personnel, and the educational infrastructure from criminal activities, particularly crimes of violence" and is encouraging schools to develop "non-invasive" forms of surveillance including monitoring systems to detect drugs and weapons, cameras to detect movement on school grounds, and systems that would capture and track personal and biometric data without notifying individuals under surveillance.