AB 1035

This bill requires the Department of Justice to expand the Wisconsin deflection initiative during the 2025-27 fiscal biennium. The Wisconsin deflection initiative is a program that focuses on identifying, treating, and supporting individuals affected by substance use in a way that limits criminal justice system exposure.

Under the bill, DOJ must expand the Wisconsin deflection initiative by providing grants to current deflection initiative sites for any of the following purposes: to hire additional employees to provide deflection care coordination, to contract with outside vendors for consultations and program evaluations, to acquire deflection care technology, or to contract with an outside vendor to provide deflection care coordination technology.

The bill provides $507,100 in each fiscal year of the 2025-27 biennium and increases the authorized FTE employees for DOJ by 1.0 GPR position for the purpose of expanding the Wisconsin deflection initiative.