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Dear Mr. LeBlanc:

You have requested an opinion of the Attorney General on whether the provisions of Act 1225 of the 2003 Regular Session (Act) provides that the proper method to calculate the savings attributed to the reduction of services and employees due to the closure of the Swanson Correctional Center for Youth-Madison Parish Unit (SCCY-MPU) Act is to deduct the costs of services and employees at the alternative correctional facility currently in operation from the costs of services and employees incurred when the facility was operated as a juvenile detention facility.

The Act provides…