Program misclassification

Certified police outreach events as opioid treatment

$281,181.92

Amount in this finding

FGrade F · provisionalMount Laurel Township

Program misclassification · Verified · Updated 10/04/2026 · 6 documents

The FY2024 report lists one program, Active Outreach for Opioid Recovery, recipient Mount Laurel Township, funded 93,645.53 and expended 29,144.92, with a launch date of 12/12/2023 (pp3 and 4). It describes the program as 4 to 6 large-scale multidiscipline events a year that the Mount Laurel Police Department hosts, and it files the program under primary category Treatment, with Treat Opioid Use Disorder first among its Schedule B strategies. The FY2025 and FY2026 reports update the same program at 92,912.89 and 159,124.11. The account paid 281,181.92 from 12/12/2023 through 06/30/2026, and those payments make the three figures to the cent. Of that, 168,974.30 is Township payroll with no title or hours. The rest is event food from Chick-fil-A, Wegmans and McDonald's, hygiene kits, clothing, toys and giveaway goods, an 8.5 by 20 trailer, one line of a police vehicle upfit, vehicle lettering, traffic items, a tablet, management course tuition and an impairment simulation kit. No payment went to a treatment provider, clinician or licensed program, and none bought medication. The FY2025 and FY2026 reports count over 600 and over 950 units of Narcan distributed. The account bought no naloxone. The launch date, 12/12/2023, is the date of the first payroll charge and the first two Chick-fil-A orders on the account. Exhibit E's Treatment uses are treatment for opioid use disorder. Active outreach appears in Exhibit E under section D as the DART model, not under Treatment. The books show no treatment behind the Treatment label.