The Beadle County States Attorney’s office will become the first in South Dakota to offer a diversion program to not only keep criminal offenders out of jail, but keep them from beginning a criminal record…
States Attorney Mike Moore says the program will be elective for those charged with a crime. It will give Moore the chance to give all low-level offenders in Beadle County the opportunity to learn from their mistakes…
Those charged with any Class Two misdemeanor would be eligible….
The Community Accountability Program could lead to a slight loss in revenue for the Unified Judicial System through the lack of fines and court costs paid by individuals choosing to do the CAP program. Moore says he’s working with U-J-S officials to on a way to return some funds to the court system through a recovery fee. You can hear more about the CAP program by tuning in Saturday at 11 AM to the Mike Moore Show on Dakota Country 1210-AM KOKK