Patterson believes more elected prosecutors may be initiating diversion programs now that the state Legislature passed a law in 2019 clarifying they have the authority to do so.

Activists should also pressure legislators to reform existing diversion programs to ensure they are effective, do not burden participants with debt, and do not inadvertently widen the criminal justice ...

The Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney’s office has decided to start a program that sends some nonviolent offenders to a diversion program before charges are filed. “We’ve decided to do it,” ...

Eligible defendants are now admitted to the drug diversion program post-indictment, and are required to complete a substance abuse assessment.

Long Beach Prosecutor gets $900,000 to expand diversion program That money, from the Department of Justice, is the largest grant that office has ever received, said City Prosecutor Doug Haubert.

Both Republican incumbent David Gilbert and Democrat Chris Vreeland believe specialty courts, diversion programs help defendants and lower costs.

The Fairfax County prosecutor’s office is launching a program that will allow some people charged with nonviolent offenses to have their cases dismissed if they complete treatment or other ...

Long Beach prosecutor’s office expands diversion program to house more homeless Doug Haubert, LB city prosecutor tours the Atlantic Bridge Housing in Long Beach on Tuesday, April 27, 2021.

An experimental pre-arrest diversion program is off to a slow start in New Haven in part because the city already doesn’t put people in jail for low-level drug offenses. That perspective was offered ...

The two teenagers accused of vandalizing a middle school on Mercer Island in January will enter a court-let diversion program rather than face hate crime charges. The two 16-year-olds wrote ...

Here are answers to two. Read their answers to questions on diversion programs and sexual offenses and Alex Fryer’s Opinion column on the race.

Prosecutor-led diversion Several prosecutors — including Baker, Bell, Patterson and St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner — have had post-plea diversion programs for several years.