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Criminal

Jan. 26, 2017

Localities vying for state diversion funds

Several California counties are preparing applications for a competitive grant program to fund a diversion model in which street cops make the calls.

By L.J. Williamson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Several California counties are preparing applications for a competitive grant program to fund a diversion model that empowers police to put offenders in treatment rather than jail.

Known as law enforcement assisted diversion, or LEAD, the program is modeled after an approach piloted in Seattle in 2011. Designed to reduce recidivism for...

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