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Board approves $125,000 opioid-settlement allocation for jail MAT program amid cost concerns
Summary
Livingston County commissioners approved using opioid-settlement funds to support medication-assisted treatment in the sheriff’s jail, with legal counsel saying the county’s settlement funds do not constitute supplanting and at least one commissioner opposing the allocation over cost concerns.
The Livingston County Board of Commissioners approved Resolution 2025-08-115 on Aug. 25 to allocate opioid-settlement funds to the sheriff’s jail for a medication-assisted treatment (MAT) program for inmates.
Board legal counsel and Michigan Association of Counties representatives told commissioners the county’s local opioid-settlement funds are a different pot of…
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