California County DA Responds to State Lawsuit to Overturn County’s Ban on Needle-Exchange Program

Published on March 22, 2024

El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson said he is “furious” at California leaders, after learning March 19 the state has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the county’s ban on the state’s needle exchange program. The state sued El Dorado County and the city of Placerville, located in northeastern California at the base of South Lake Tahoe, for prohibiting a state program that distributes clean syringes for drug use to addicts and the homeless population. “This is disastrously dangerous, and I am furious at our state leaders,” Mr. Pierson said in a statement Tuesday. “Don’t come into our county and double down on your failed policy.”...

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