Office of Diversion and Reentry

Since its establishment, ODR has launched several successful innovative programs, helping to safely remove thousands of individuals from the Los Angeles County jail system and supporting thousands more who have been released from incarceration or are on probation supervision in the community. Through a harm reduction and public health approach, ODR has also run successful community-based diversion programs to keep both adults and youth from being arrested and incarcerated.

ODR’s jail- based diversion programs serve to reduce the number of incarcerated people in the LA County jail who have mental and/or substance use disorders by removing them from the jail through various court interventions or through pre-arrest or pre-booking diversion, and providing them with care and housing.