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Law enforcement leaders ask for $3 million state support to sustain deflection/quick-response teams
Summary
Representatives of Ohio's deflection/quick-response teams and their technology and data partners told the committee that state investment (they asked for parity with the prior $3 million appropriation) is needed to sustain teams that link people with substance use disorder to treatment and reduce overdose deaths and related criminal activity.
Several law enforcement leaders, program directors and a vendor testified in proponent testimony about the Quick Response Team (QRT) and deflection model and asked the committee to include sustained funding in the state budget.
Dan Malloy, president of the Ohio Deflection Association and a retired police chief, and Tom Fallon, executive director of the Ohio Deflection Association and former heroin task force commander in…
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