Bad Check Program by Barbara LaWell

Posted by Harold Burtzloff 
on May 15, 2012
 
 
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Speaker Barbara LaWall, Pima County Attorney

 Barbara  is in her fourth term and running for re-election for a fifth term.  As Pima County Attorney she has many duties holding criminals accountable, crime prevention, providing quality victim services and running a cost-effective office.

 She gave us some statistics about bad checks:

§  9954 checks turned bovver since the inception of the program.

§  Year to date $301,716.79 in restitution

§  This program is number one in the nation over $11.1 million returned to individuals and merchants in Pima County since its inception in 1996.

She has created many programs, the Sexual Abuse Support Services, AMBER Missing Child Alert in AZ, Safe Baby Program, Community Prosecution Unit, Truancy Enforcement Program, Criminal Evictions, Multi-Agency Response Teams and many more.

She will have to come back again and give us more information.