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Rockingham County diversion program converts service hours to donations, dozens of local nonprofits benefit
Summary
An adult diversion coordinator told commissioners the county's diversion program offers participants a monetary conversion of required community-service hours; donations since the pandemic have supplied local agencies with goods ranging from stuffed animals to holiday packages for Meals on Wheels recipients.
Allison Mailer, who manages Rockingham County's adult diversion program, briefed commissioners on Jan. 16 about a practice in which diversion participants may convert some court-ordered community-service hours into monetary donations that the program uses to buy items requested by local nonprofits.
Why it matters: The diversion program serves people charged with misdemeanors and some felonies and aims to rehabilitate participants so they can exit the criminal justice system without a conviction. Mailer told the board the donations program preserves the community-service obligation while allowing nonprofits to…
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