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Lackawanna County, district attorney agree to restart community service program under 10-year MOU
Summary
The Board of Commissioners approved a 10-year memorandum of understanding with the Lackawanna County District Attorney to reestablish a countywide community service program that assigns low-level offenders to public-service hours for municipalities and nonprofits; the DA said the prior program saved taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Lackawanna County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Aug. 20, 2025, to enter a 10-year memorandum of understanding with the office of the district attorney to reestablish the county’s community service program.
District Attorney Brian Gallagher told the commissioners that the DA’s office ran a community service program prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and that the office has the capacity to revive it. Gallagher said the earlier program produced 27,000 hours of…
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