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County officials have stripped a requirement that defendants plead guilty before becoming eligible for a jail diversion program for those with mental illnesses. Staffers note they made "significant changes" to a newly-released draft document for the proposed program after activists and local officials expressed concern over the guilty plea requirement, among other aspects to the program. "The ....

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