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 ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Several agencies in the Cape Fear region are working together to address the opioid epidemic in North Carolina. New data shows there were more than 1,100 opiate-related deaths ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...