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Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade County’s top law enforcement officer, is the County’s and Florida’s first Cuban American State Attorney (SA). She is a nationally recognized leader and pioneer of Smart Justice programs who has always treated offenders as individuals, helping those she could and punishing those she must.

She has implemented many ground-breaking innovations that divert people from the traditional criminal justice system and address their criminogenic needs as appropriate, including:

• Civil Citations – juvenile and adult;

• Florida’s only prosecutor-led Child Support Program; •The nation’s first Drug Court, leading to a national movement;

• Mental Health Court;

• •Veteran’s Treatment Court;

• The “Second Chance” Program, which provides monthly Sealing and Expungement opportunities;

• Implementation of Amendment 4, which restored the right to vote for eligible returning citizens who completed their sentences.

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