list includes going to war with disney whitewashing history lessons, eliminating diversity programs and public schools. signing a slate of extreme anti lgbtq bills. quietly signing a very restrictive abortion bill into law to enemy now is the honorable monique worrell the florida attorney suspended by governor ron desantis earlier this week thank you so much for being here now that these diversion programs have been canceled, they were central to your policy platform as a when you are campaigning, when you are running for office. what does that do for the people who are in these programs? these programs are suddenly ended in these folks have nowhere to go? thank you for having me. yes, this is going to harm our community. the policies that we implemented surrounding diversion are based in research.
i spent 16 years as a professor at the university of florida college of law. there i was the director of the criminal justice center. there was a lot of research that goes into the fact that diverting nonviolent people out of the criminal legal system build stronger, safer, communities. what we did with my first two and a half years in offices we expanded diversion programs so we could make it easier for people who just needed a little redirection to be able to get that without having their entire lives ruined by a criminal legal system that is unfair given. one, that once you have been in it, and there is a mugshot circling a view, it makes it difficult for you if not impossible for you define education, employment, and to see the light. our diversion program with central to public safety in our community. monique, as a former prosecutor i can tell you that so much about our conversations about crime and punishment are not data driven. the fact that you are talking
In his first morning as state attorney, Andrew Bain made immediate and sweeping changes: He fired two executive staff members, canceled the office’s catch-and-release policy and discontinued the office’s diversion programs while he “evaluate[s] their effectiveness.” The actions by Bain, a member of the conservative Federalist Society who Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed to the Orange County .
In one of his first actions as state attorney, Andrew Bain told staff in an email he is eliminating diversion programs designed to offer early intervention for some offenders and relieve the burden on the court system juggling more serious cases.