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City highlights co-response units and special services docket as alternatives to prosecution
Summary
Officials described the city’s Alternate Response Teams (ART 1 and ART 2), Community Response Team (CRT) functions and the Special Services Docket that link people with mental-health and social services instead of traditional misdemeanor prosecution.
City public-safety and social-service representatives summarized several programs designed to divert people from arrest and to provide ongoing support: the Special Services Docket, Alternate Response Team 1 (ART 1), Alternate Response Team 2 (ART 2) and complementary crisis-response teams.
Speakers said the Special Services Docket provides an alternative to traditional prosecution for low-level municipal misdemeanors driven by behavioral-health or housing instability. A Mental Health…
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