MARION COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - In 2018, Marion County, Oregon, established the state’s first Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program. This initiative, based on a model from Seattle, offers an ...

There are glowing national endorsements for Seattle’s Law Enforcement-Assisted Diversion program, which sends low-level offenders to services rather than jail. But one of the program's founders says ...

It’s been on Snohomish County prosecutor Adam Cornell’s wish list for some time to expand the LEAD program to his county. LEAD stands for Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, and is a program that was ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A pilot program in Portland that offers treatment option instead of jail time for low-level drug offenders has reached the one year mark. The LEAD Program, which stands for Law ...

PUEBLO — The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program in Pueblo is growing. LEAD is "designed to reduce the harm caused by drug use and lower the chance that you will go to jail." It's a ...

An innovative program that has been credited with helping low-level drug offenders stay clean and out of jail has been expanded into Capitol Hill and the rest of the Seattle Police Department’s East ...