

LEAD: Advancing Criminal Justice Reform
In 2021
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.

Exploring
CA Galt
CA Marin County
CA Pacific Grove
CA San Francisco
CT Middletown
DC Washington
FL Tampa Bay
GA Cobb County
IA Polk County
IL Chicago/Cook County
IL Wasco
IN Bloomington
IN Indianapolis
KY Elizabethtown
MA Rockport
MD Baltimore
MI Southfield
MN Minneapolis
MN Wayzata
MO Missouri City
MO St. Louis
NC Brunswick County
NC Dare County
NC Durham County
NC Harnett County
NC Lexington
NC Orange County
NC Winston-Salem
NC Washington
NH Concord
NM Raton
NM Taos County
NY Buffalo
NY Erie County
NY Essex County
NY Orange County
NY Queens
NY Rensselaer
NY Rochester
NY Rockland County
NY Schenectady
OH Batavia
OR Multnomah County
OR Salem
PA Pittsburgh
PA York
RI Pawtucket
TX Austin
TX El Paso
TX Houston
TX San Antonio
VA Richmond
WA Pierce County
WA Redmond
WA Kitsap County
WA Thurston County
WI Baraboo
Developing
CA Hollywood
CA San Joaquin County
CO Lakewood
DE Wilmington
HI Maui County
KY Pendleton County
MI Detroit
MI Washtenaw County
MS Statewide
NC Watuaga County
OH Hamilton County
OR Marion County
PA Lancaster
SC Lancaster
WA King County
WA Makah Tribe (Neah Bay)
WI Sauk City
Launching
HI Hawaii County
NC Jacksonville
NY Brooklyn*
NY Ithaca
WA Puyallup Tribe
* Jurisdictions developing police diversion/deflection that are not called LEAD, but are in alignment with LEAD Core Principles.
Operating
CA Contra Costa County
CA Los Angeles
CA San Francisco
CO Alamosa
CO Denver County
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 Burke County
NC Fayetteville
NC Hickory/Catawba County
NC Statesville/Mooreville
NC Waynesville
NC Wilmington
NH Dover
NH Farmington
NM Albuquerque
NM Rio Arriba
NM Santa Fe
NV Las Vegas
NY Albany
NY Schoharie County
OR Clackamas County
OR Portland†
PA Philadelphia
TX Houston (Youth)
WA Burien
WA Mason County
WA Seattle
WA Snohomish County
WA Walla Walla
WA Whatcom County
WY Cheyenne
WV Charleston
WV Huntington
What is LEAD?
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.