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Dear Mr. Gegenheimer:

Reference is made to your recent request for an opinion of this office regarding the use of funds generated by your office from court filing fees received from the public. Specifically, you ask for our advice as to whether or not your office can donate $25,000 of those funds to the I Can Do It, Inc. drug court program. It is our understanding that the program is dedicated to the intervention, treatment and recovery of certain non-violent criminal offenders in an effort to produce productive members of the community. You advise that the program has an excellent track…