Baltimore Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program: Implementation and Benefits

February 15, 2017 – Segment 2

With our panel of guests we discussesed Baltimore’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, created to divert low-level drug offenders away from arrest, to treatment and other support services.

With: Crista Taylor, Vice President for Programs of the Behavioral Health System of Baltimore; Captain James Rhoden, Baltimore City Police Department; and Scott Nolan, Director of the Drug Addiction Treatment Program for Open Society Institute-Baltimore.

Written by Marc Steiner

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