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Politics
County appears to be moving forward with deflection program
The creation of a program intended to provide intervention services to people arrested on drug-related charges in Lincoln County hit a bit of a bump in the road recently, but its implementation appears to be moving forward. At its meeting on Sept. 18, the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners was chastised by the county’s presiding judge, sheriff and district attorney for not being open about the status of the deflection program, which is intended to provide drug users with a path to recovery, rather than...
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