District Attorney Paige Clarkson reports that Marion County’s RESTORE Court will stop accepting new participants after state funding cuts, though current cases will be completed.
Marion County, OR. — Marion County District Attorney Paige Clarkson has notified local justice and treatment partners that the county’s RESTORE Court must cease operations because of insufficient state funding.
The program, formally known as Restitution and Treatment on Route to Expungement, will complete services for participants currently enrolled but will not accept any new cases.
“I am truly disappointed that our State could not see the value in an operational program that sought to get offenders the treatment they need while simultaneously making victims whole and helping our community in the process,” Clarkson said in a statement. “This is exactly the type of wholistic thinking our state leaders should champion and not punish.”…