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Chief Patron: McClellan
Interagency Working Group for Local Criminal Justice Diversion Programs (language only)

Item 359 #1s

Item 359 #1s

Health and Human Resources
Department of Social Services

Language

Page 440, after line 43, insert:

"K.  The Department of Social Services as administrator of the federal Community Services Block Grant shall establish an interagency working group to develop recommendations for implementation of local criminal justice diversion programs. These programs should provide alternatives to arrest, conviction or incarceration for lower-level offenses. Each diversion program should offer standards for providing persons charged with lower-level offenses alternatives to arrest, conviction or incarceration for lower-level offenses. The scope of these programs should not include behavioral health issues as those priorities are being addressed elsewhere. The working group should include the appropriate offices and agencies of Health and Human Resources, Commerce and Trade, Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Governor's Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer. The interagency working group shall work with community action agencies, local governments including local law enforcement, representatives of the judicial system, civil rights organizations as well as other stakeholders to develop locally-based solutions. The recommendations shall provide for two-generation whole family strategies that deal with meeting the needs of the potential offender and his or her entire family by addressing issues related to poverty, including homelessness. The Department of Social Services shall submit its recommendations to the Chairs of the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee no later than September 30, 2021."



Explanation

(This amendment establishes an interagency working group to develop recommendations for local criminal justice diversion programs to provide alternatives to arrest, conviction or incarceration for lower-level offenses.)