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Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) - King County LEAD diverts individuals who are engaged in low-level drug crime, prostitution, and crimes of poverty away from the criminal legal system—bypassing prosecution and jail time—and connects them with intensive case managers who can provide crisis response, immediate psychosocial assessment, and long term wrap-around services including substance use
LEAD Seattle · King County LEAD offers a better response to chronic crime and disorder, allowing community leaders, police, and prosecutors to ensure that community care and coordination form the primary approach to people whose problematic conduct stems from mental illness, substance use, or extreme poverty
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) fact sheet (2025) Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a model framework that supports community-based alternatives to jail and prosecution for people whose unlawful behavior stems from unmanaged substance use, mental health challenges, or extreme poverty
LEAD — Community Passageways The program was designed to divert those suspected of low-level drug and prostitution offenses away from jail and prosecution and into case management, legal coordination, and other supportive services The primary goal of LEAD is to reduce criminal recidivism
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Overview - MMHPI LEAD, now growing across the country, is an evidence-based, collaborative, pre-arrest diversion program aimed at improving public safety by reducing drug use, drug selling, and the quality-of-life problems associated with open-air drug markets
View the Style palette for text formatting - Shift Washington Seattle, Washington, has been at the forefront of this effort, pioneering a novel pre-booking diversion program for minor drug law violations and other low-level offenses known as Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD)
Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program For over a decade, Seattle?s Public Defender Association, the Seattle Police Department (SPD), and the King County Prosecuting Attorney?s Office were engaged in contentious litigation over the racial disparity in Seattle drug arrests and prosecutions
Justice System Transformation - REACH LEAD is revolutionizing the way Seattle law enforcement handles people accused of repeat, low-level drug-related crimes by providing a comprehensive mix of services rather than putting them in jail REACH provides the case management and access to services that are the backbone of LEAD More information: http: leadkingcounty org