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Residents and providers urge county to keep Washington Drug & Alcohol authority intact, demand transparency on opioid funds
Summary
At a Washington County commissioners meeting, public commenters and Washington Drug & Alcohol officials urged commissioners to preserve the county's Single County Authority (SCA) and to make opioid-settlement funding and committee selection processes public and accountable.
Residents, recovery providers and officials from the Washington Drug & Alcohol Commission asked the Washington County Board of Commissioners to halt a proposed restructuring of the county's Single County Authority and to make opioid-settlement spending decisions more transparent.
"The public deserves clarity, not just a ceremony," said AC Rowland during the meeting's public-comment period, pressing the board for details on who selected members of the newly created opioid settlement review committee and whether meetings, scoring systems and minutes would be public. "These dollars are meant to repair public harm. The public deserves to see every step of how they are spent."
Laura Dieterle, director of…
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