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San Francisco awarded $5 million to launch LEAD diversion pilot

San Francisco Health Commission · April 4, 2017
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The department announced more than $5 million to begin LEAD SF, a law-enforcement-assisted diversion pilot based on Seattle—s model that will redirect low-level repeat drug offenders to community health services instead of jail in targeted transit-area pilots.

Director Garcia announced that San Francisco has been awarded more than $5,000,000 to launch LEAD SF, a law-enforcement-assisted diversion program modeled on Seattle—s LEAD initiative. Garcia said the pilot will begin in late April in two high-arrest areas: the Tenderloin Civic Center BART Station and the 16th Street Mission BART Station.

—LEAD is a program that was developed in Seattle,…

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