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HARRISBURG ā Records obtained by Spotlight PA and WESA provide a first-of-its-kind, wide-ranging look at how Pennsylvania county officials spent or are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars they received in opioid settlement money.
The newsrooms are still analyzing records obtained from dozens of public agencies. But they are making the spending reports broadly available to help ensure the public can see how counties and prosecutors spent the money before an oversight board publicly decides whether the spending was appropriate.
Using the stateās Right-to-Know Law, the newsrooms are seeking the reports from all 67 counties in Pennsylvania, along with 10 district attorneysā offices entitled to funds based on their role in litigation.
Those agencies were approved to receive $141 million in settlement funds for 2022 and 2023, and are slated to receive hundreds of millions more in the years to come.
Counties had to file by March 15 detailed spending reports with the Pennsylvania Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement Trust ā a group whose members have operated in secret and blocked the public from speaking at meetings. This is the first time these reports were due to the trust.
The 13-person oversight board has the power to withhold and ultimately cut funding if board members determine counties spent money inappropriately, based on strategies outlined in a settlement document known as Exhibit E. But the potential uses are broad and open to interpretation.
Despite the trustās requirement to follow the stateās public meetings law, board members approved a plan in February to first review these spending reports in private small groups before making recommendations to the full board. Trust Chair Tom VanKirk said in February that the board plans to make spending information public āwhen weāve had a chance to vote on it.ā
In the meantime, these reports obtained by Spotlight PA and WESA offer insight into what trust members will be voting on, how counties spent the money, and in some cases, what their future plans are. About three dozen public agencies provided relevant records in the initial days following the newsroomsā public records requests to counties across the state.
In February, in response to questions from Spotlight PA and WESA, the trust declined to say when the full board would meet to review the recommendations, and the trust didnāt say when it would make spending information public.
In a news release on March 21 ā issued hours after Spotlight PA and WESA again requested details from the trust and informed the group of their plans to make spending reports publicly available ā the trust provided limited spending details.
The news release said preliminary estimates show Pennsylvania counties and other local governments had spent or committed more than $70 million distributed by the trust to address opioid remediation, based on reports it received. The news release also said the trustās small working groups would review the reports in April.
The trustās next scheduled public meeting is May 2.
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/03/opioid-settlementā¦
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CONPLAN 8888, also known as Counter-Zombie Dominance, is a U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Command CONOP document that describes a plan for the United States and its military defending against zombies.[1][2][3][4][5] It was initially classified by the United States Intelligence Community, but was eventually declassified following a Freedom of Information Act request.[1]
The April 30, 2011 document was written as part of a fictional training scenario for junior officers undergoing training in JOPES, the DoD's contingency planning system and for strategic training.[1][3][6] United States Strategic Command instructors found that a "zombie survival plan" made for "a very useful and effective training tool", while avoiding the political risks of using a real country in training scenarios.[1][3]
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In my opinion, this is here is one of the major problems in Kensington. These āNon Profit Groupsā ! If they clean up Kensington they loose funding. What is more important? Keeping the money flow or curing the disease of addiction with is a scourge on all citizens!
www.cbsnews.com/amp/philadelphia/news/savage-sisteā¦
Nonprofit Savage Sisters Recovery says forcing it out of Kensington will worsen drug crisis
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Cleaning up Kensington is a top priority for new Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker.
But now, a nonprofit providing harm reduction resources to residents is being forced to leave. They say that will make the dire situation in Kensington even worse.
From their storefront on Kensington Avenue, Savage Sisters Recovery offers public health services, running water, clean clothing and wound care for people suffering from addiction
Now, the team has learned City Councilmember Quetcy Lozada asked the real estate developer who owns the building where Savage Sisters is located to terminate the organization's lease.
"We do a lot of hard, ugly, brutal work day in and day out, reversing overdoses and serving a community of individuals that have basically been forgotten, and to know that we are advocating for them and working so hard and to know that our leaders are disregarding that work is disheartening," Sarah Laurel, the executive director of Savage Sisters Recovery, said.
Lozada represents the city's 7th district and wants to get rid of illegal drug activity. She also wants harm reduction groups out of Kensington.
"They allow for people to publicly inject whatever controlled substances they are using in front of their establishment, inside their establishment," Lozada said.
The councilmember claimed she had heard of people using heroin or other drugs inside of Savage Sisters.
Savage Sisters adamantly denied this and said the councilmember has never been inside to see the work they are doing to help those suffering from addiction.
"No, we would never let anybody use within our storefront," Laurel said. "Blaming an organization that has been in existence and our storefront has been there for two years ā for a decades-long issue ā is a scapegoat move."
The nonprofit started a petition, asking Shift Capital to reconsider.
The developer sent CBS Philadelphia a statement, saying they are terminating their lease with Savage Sisters but won't say why.
"We have reversed 300 overdoses in a year, that's 300 lives that we were able to save," Laurel said. "Not having that be recognized by our leadership is pretty frightening for a future within our community."
Last year, Savage served more than 13,000, getting many into treatment for substance abuse.
From the district to the roundhouse to State Road, we are absolutely ill-prepared for the epidemic that is coming from this drug crisis," Laurel said. "But instead, they are pushing the harm reduction out and they are going full law enforcement and we will feel the effects of this."
In Pennsylvania, deaths are trending at 436 a month ā 14 overdoses a day in the commonwealth.
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Any confirmation on this ?
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