Program misclassification

Certified a movie night as overdose harm reduction

$699.00

Amount in this finding

CGrade C · provisionalLittle Ferry

Program misclassification · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 2 documents

The FY2026 report lists a new program named Movies Under the Stars at 699.00 funded and spent, recipient Premiere Productions LLC, which it describes as a movie production vendor (pp8 to 11). It gives the primary category as Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention and the Schedule B strategies as Prevent Misuse of Opioids and Prevent Overdose Deaths and Other Harms (Harm Reduction). It says opioid educational materials and promotional items were handed out to people at the event, and it reports 100 individuals served. The account paid Premiere Productions LLC 699.00 for Movies Under the Stars 6/27/26 on purchase order 26-00588, check 6847, on 06/26/2026. That payment is the certified figure to the cent. The report names an outdoor movie night and files it under harm reduction. Exhibit E's harm reduction category lists naloxone, overdose response training, syringe service programs and similar services, and a film screening is not among them. No prevention or harm reduction program built on the screening is documented.