Westchester Insider: Westchester County District Attorney: MEDIA ADVISORY: WESTCHESTER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY ROCAH TO ANNOUNCE LAUNCH OF NEW COMMUNITY-BASED DIVERSION PROGRAM FOCUSED ON REHABILITATION INSTEAD OF INCARCERATION.

 

WESTCHESTER COUNTY OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY

MIRIAM E. ROCAH

 

 

                                                                                                                 ***MEDIA ADVISORY***

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 27, 2021

 

WESTCHESTER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY ROCAH TO ANNOUNCE LAUNCH OF NEW COMMUNITY-BASED DIVERSION PROGRAM FOCUSED ON REHABILITATION INSTEAD OF INCARCERATION.

Tuesday, September 28

2 p.m.

Westchester County District Attorney’s Office

111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd

White Plains, NY 10601

 

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White Plains, NY – Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah will announce Tuesday the launch of Fresh Start, an innovative program that gives second chances to certain first-time, low-level offenders arrested in Westchester County.

 

Fresh Start, which takes a constructive approach to criminal justice reform focused on community-based social services instead of incarceration, is launching as pilot program in collaboration with Westchester County Executive George Latimer, the Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH), the Greenburgh Police Department, the White Plains Police Department and the Legal Aid Society of Westchester.

 

DA Rocah will be joined by County Executive George Latimer, DCMH Commissioner Michael Orth, Greenburgh Police Chief Chris McNerney, White Plains Police Chief Joseph Castelli and Executive Director Clare Degnan of the Legal Aid Society of Westchester.