What is the diversion fee used for?
The Central Diversion office employs five full time employees. The 23 Community Accountability Boards (CABs) utilize approximately 80 contract staff who schedule diversion meetings, monitor diversion agreements, and advise the volunteers at the CAB meetings. The Diversion Program contracts with five youth service bureaus whose drug and alcohol counselors perform drug and alcohol assessments for youth charged with drug and alcohol offenses. At any given time there may be up to seven Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys screening and processing diversion cases. A cost analysis was performed and it was determined that, on average, it costs $263 per diversion case from the time the prosecutor receives it to the time that the case is closed. The diversion program does not generate a profit.
