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Council backs law-enforcement assisted diversion MOU and five-year Axon body-camera extension
Summary
Plainfield advanced a county-funded LEAD diversion MOU pairing police with Trinitas case managers for pre-arrest diversion in certain low-level offenses and approved a five-year Axon contract to continue body-worn cameras, projected to save about $415,000 over five years.
The Plainfield City Council received presentations and signaled consensus to add to the voting meeting two police-related items: (1) an MOU to participate in a Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program funded by Union County opioid-settlement dollars that would divert qualifying nonviolent, low-level cases to counseling and rehab rather than prosecution, and (2) a five-year contract extension with Axon for body-worn cameras.
Police/VA (Speaker 10) said the LEAD…
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