Waterford Township

The FY2026 report, pages 4 to 13, certifies a new program named Purchase of K9 at 10,000.00 funded and spent, recipient Waterford Township Police Department.

Its primary category is Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, and its Schedule B strategies are Connections to Care, Prevent Overdose Deaths and Other Harms (Harm Reduction) and First Responders (p9). It reports 10,500 unduplicated individuals served (p5), 75 services or encounters and 10 referrals to treatment (p7). It describes the program as the acquisition, training and initial equipment of a law enforcement K9 unit for illicit opioid interdiction, with detection at high-risk locations, traffic stops and public facilities (p6). The books show one order. Purchase order 26-00206 to Voodoo K9 LLC, one line described as POLICE K9 DOG, was first encumbered on 02/18/2026 and paid by check 3527 for 10,000.00 on 03/12/2026 from account G-01-41-716-000-000, Opioid Settlement Funds. That is the certified figure to the cent. The launch date the report gives, 03/12/2026, is the date of the check, 110 days before the period closed. The report names the purchase, but harm reduction does not describe it. The harm reduction uses Exhibit E lists include naloxone distribution and training, overdose education, syringe service programs and mobile harm reduction units. None is a police dog. No overdose, treatment or diversion program using the dog is documented, and police dogs are not among the uses Exhibit E lists.