2014 Code of Alabama
Title 12 - COURTS.
Chapter 17 - CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURT PERSONNEL.
Section 12-17-226.13 - Liability of district attorney, staff, officers, etc.
(a) Absent wantonness, negligence, or intentional misconduct, the district attorney or his or her staff shall have no liability, criminal or civil, for the conduct of any offender while participating in a pretrial diversion program established under this division or of any service provider or its agents that are contracted to or who have agreed to provide services to the pretrial diversion program.
(b) Absent wantonness, negligence, or intentional misconduct, the district attorney, or his or her staff or its officers or employees, shall have no liability, criminal or civil, for any injury or harm to the offender while the offender is a participant in any pretrial diversion program administered pursuant to this division. The district attorney may require written agreed upon waivers of liability as a prerequisite for admittance into the pretrial diversion program.
(c) Absent an agreement which includes the consent of the county commission, the sheriff, and the district attorney, neither the county nor the sheriff shall have any responsibility for a pretrial diversion program established under this division, including, but not limited to, the payment of any expenses which may be necessary to operate the program. Under no circumstances shall the county or the sheriff have any liability, criminal or civil, for any conduct by an offender or any injury or harm to the offender while he or she is a participant in any program authorized by this division.
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