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8 <br /> <br /> <br />• Criminal Justice Resource Department – page 118 <br />• Total Recommended Expenditure Budget - $700,654 <br />• Misdemeanor Diversion Program Transition <br />– Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion <br />– Program Referral Instead of Arrest/Charges <br />– Originally Designed to Serve 16 and 17 Year Olds in Adult System <br />• Transition to Orange County Pre-Arrest Diversion (OC-PAD) <br />– Redesign Program to Serve 18+ Year Olds <br />– Provides Immediate and Targeted Programming and Collateral <br />Consequence Education <br />– Prevent Criminal History <br />• Criminal Justice Resource Department – page 118 <br />• Restoration Program Legal Counsel - $69,978 <br />– 1.0 FTE Starting October 1, 2019 <br />– Restore Driving Privileges <br />– Means Tested Service Eligibility <br />– Free Legal Services to Reduce or Eliminate a Traffic Fee or Fine <br />– Expunction Relief to Purge Criminal Record <br />• Population Served <br />– 16,000 Orange County Residents with Suspended Drivers <br />Licenses <br />– 3,000 of those Suspensions Result from Failure to Comply with <br />Traffic Fines and Court Fees <br />• Program Outcomes <br />– License Restorations or Expungements <br />– Employment Rates and Housing <br />– Access to Health Care and Education Resources <br />– Increase in Family Stability and Reduction in Recidivism <br /> <br />Cycle of Revocation <br /> <br />Criminal Justice Resource Department – page 118 (page 18 of PPT) <br /> <br />Criminal Justice Resource Department – page 118 <br /> <br />Chair Rich asked if this is being done in other areas. <br />Cait Fenhagen said Wake, Durham and New Hanover, but all are a little bit different. <br />She said it is guided by the District Attorney’s office, and it is important to note that Orange <br />County is only offering relief for failure to pay/comply, as opposed to failure to appear. <br />Commissioner Bedford asked if the court fees and fines go somewhere in particular and <br />how is the money made up. <br />Cait Fenhagen said it is not being collected at all right now. She said it is important to <br />limit this to those who really cannot ever pay, and Orange County judges have expressed <br />concern about this. She said there is an affidavit of indigency, which is similar to the right to <br />counsel (but that is a constitutional right), and one judge has asked for a closer examination of <br />financial means. <br />Commissioner McKee asked, of those that have not paid, if it is known how many may <br />have the means to pay. <br />Cait Fenhagen said it is important at intake to thoroughly determine who cannot pay and <br />those who can pay. She said ultimately the issue goes before the District Attorney, who must