Provo • The new top prosecutor in Utah’s second-largest county is planning a program to get low-level offenders into drug treatment or community service without ever filing criminal charges against them.
Utah County Attorney David Leavitt is looking to create a diversion program that would allow some nonviolent offenders to fulfill certain requirements that would result in the case against them being dropped, The Daily Herald reported last week.
Getting charged with a crime can disrupt a person’s life for years, making it hard to find a job or a place to live, Leavitt said.