National Night Out event in South Lake Tahoe on Tuesday

The South Lake Tahoe Police Department is partnering with area first responders to host the National Night Out 2021 event on Tuesday, August 3.

This year's National Night Out will be held at the Blue Zone Sports parking lot at the Y from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

There will be food, games, activities, a mobile vaccine clinic, resources, and various first responder vehicles. This is a family-friendly event and a great chance to connect with our local first responders.

National Night Out is a community-police awareness-raising event in the United States, held the first Tuesday of August in all states but Texas where it is held in October. It has been held annually since 1984, and is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch in the United States. National Night Out began simply with neighbors turning on their porch lights and sitting in front of their homes. The first National Night Out involved 2.5 million residents across 400 communities in 23 states; National Night Out 2016 involved 38 million residents in 16,000 communities across the United States.

The event is meant to increase awareness about police programs in communities, such as drug prevention, town watch, neighborhood watch, and other anti-crime efforts.