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    CONTACT BUREAU STAFF
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    Kris Nyrop, LEAD National Support Director · Lisa Daugaard, PDA Director · Najja Morris, LEAD Operations Advisor · Chief (Ret.) Brendan Cox, Director of Policing Strategies

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    info@leadbureau.org

    206.392.0050 x 795

    810 Third Avenue
    Suite 705
    Seattle, WA 98104

     

    LEAD: Advancing Criminal Justice Reform

    In 2018

     

    The LEAD® National Support Bureau is a project of the Public Defender Association (PDA). PDA acknowledges our partnership with the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice in the launch of the Bureau in 2016. The Bureau also draws on the expertise of prosecutors, police, case managers and community public safety leaders who are now using LEAD on the ground, and are willing to share lessons learned with their peers around the country.

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    Exploring

     

    CA Marin County

    CO Durango

    CT Middletown

    DC Washington

    FL Tampa Bay

    IA Polk County

    IL Chicago/Cook County

    KY Elizabethtown

    MI Southfield

    MI Washtenaw County

    MN Minneapolis

    NC Brunswick County

    NC Dare County

    NC Durham County

    NC Harnett County

    NC Jacksonville

    NC Orange County

    NC Winston-Salem

    NM Taos County

    NY Erie County

    NY Essex County

    NY Orange County

    NY Rensselaer

    NY Rochester

    NY Schenectady

    OR Multanomah County

    OR Salem

    PA Pittsburgh

    RI Pawtucket

    TX Austin

    TX Houston

    TX San Antonio

    VA Richmond

    WA Pierce County

    WA Thurston County

    WI Baraboo

    Developing

     

    CA Contra Costa County

    CA Hollywood

    CA San Joaquin County

    CO Denver County

    DE Wilmington

    FL Miami

    HI Maui County

    ID Boise

    MI Detroit

    MS Statewide

    NM Rio Arriba

    OH Hamilton County

    OR Marion County

    PA Lancaster

    SC Lancaster

    WA Makah Tribe (Neah Bay)

    WA Puyallup Tribe

    WI Sauk City

      Launching

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    HI Hawaii County

    NY Brooklyn*

    NY Ithaca

    NY Schoharie County

    WA King County

    WA Kitsap County
     

    Operating

     

    CA Los Angeles

    CA San Francisco

    CO Alamosa

    CO Longmont

    CO Pueblo County

    CT Hartford

    CT New Haven

    GA Atlanta*

    HI Honolulu

    KY Louisville

    LA New Orleans*

    MA New Bedford

    MD Baltimore†

    ME Bangor

    NC Fayetteville† 

    NC Hickory County

    NC Statesville

    NC Waynesville

    NC Wilmington

    NH Dover

    NH Farmington

    NM Santa Fe†

    NV Las Vegas

    NY Albany†

    OR Clackamas County

    OR Portland†

    PA Philadelphia

    TX Houston (Youth)

    WA Seattle†

    WV Charleston

    WV Huntington

     † Site certified by the LEAD

        National Support Bureau

     * Jurisdictions developing police diversion/deflection that are not called LEAD, but are in alignment with LEAD Core Principles.

    What is LEAD?

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    Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a community-based diversion approach with the goals of improving public safety and public order, and reducing unnecessary justice system involvement of people who participate in the program.