Florida’s Miami-Dade County successful jail diversion program creator is leading a week-long summit in Dallas to explain how it could work here.
Retired Florida judge Steve Leifman and his team were invited to present Miami-Dade’s Criminal Mental Health Project model here as a less-expensive alternative to sending Dallas County cohorts to Florida.
Employees across county departments — including the Sheriff’s Office, District Attorney’s office, judges, jail staff and budget teams — had watched the PBS documentary The Definition of Insanity Tuesday night…