BRADON TOOMEY
FOR CUMBERLAND COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Expand treatment, diversion, and reentry support that stop the next crime before it happens, while reserving traditional prosecution for serious and dangerous conduct.

A District Attorney should be measured not only by what happens after someone is victimized, but by whether the office helps prevent the next crime before it happens. My office will expand evidence-based treatment, diversion, and early intervention strategies that address the root causes of repeat criminal behavior, while reserving traditional prosecution for serious and dangerous conduct. Nearly everyone who enters jail eventually returns to our community, and effective reentry support, employment, housing, identification, transportation, and treatment, determines whether that return leads to a second chance or a second victim. Investing in reentry is investing in prevention, and prevents future victims in our community. 

Offer parents whose charges triggered Children & Youth Services involvement a path to diversion through strict treatment, so kids get healthy, capable parents back.

Protecting a family unit does not just mean utilizing traditional law enforcement techniques to deescalate violence. It more often means treating underlying substance use and mental health disorders of parents to be present in all senses for their children. Reunifying families and making sure children have healthy, capable parents matters more than a conviction on paper. My office will lead an initiative offering parents facing charges that triggered Children & Youth Services involvement the opportunity for diversion if they complete strict treatment programming and become the parents their children deserve.

Support victims with consistent communication and trauma-informed resources from the first day of a case through long after sentencing.

Justice for victims cannot end when the gavel falls. Leveraging my widespread connections in our community, my office will pursue accountability while building innovative, victim-centered avenues for healing that go beyond a single day in court, from the moment a case begins, through trial, and long after sentencing. Consistent communication, trauma-informed support, and real resources will carry victims through the entire process, not just the parts that make headlines.

Create a dedicated Public Integrity Unit to investigate corruption, including the deals surrounding data centers moving into our county.

Public trust disappears when people believe political connections determine who receives scrutiny and who receives a pass. I will establish a dedicated Public Integrity Unit to investigate public corruption and misuse of government authority, including the property transfers and local government actions surrounding data centers moving into our county. Political party, public office, campaign connections, and personal relationships will never determine whether a matter is investigated. The law applies with equal force to everyone, regardless of connection or status, and local injustices deserve local solutions to abuse  of our democratic institutions.  

Stop prosecuting cases built on mass-surveillance camera networks like Flock that track every driver, every day.

My office will not prosecute cases built on evidence from networked AI camera systems that track and catalog the movements of our entire community. Automated license-plate networks like Flock don't just watch suspects. They log every driver, every day, building a searchable record of ordinary life for people never suspected of a crime. Municipalities should not spend taxpayer dollars on surveillance data my office will not use, nor should businesses in our community. Constitutional rights do not end where a camera lens begins, and tech companies have proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted to safeguard our privacy. It is my position that building databases of intelligence on law abiding citizens is illegal, and I will do my part to end mass spying on our community. 

Stop spending prosecutor time on standalone adult simple-possession marijuana cases, while still prosecuting impaired driving and distribution.

Despite overwhelming public support for legalization, Harrisburg has repeatedly failed to enact the will of Pennsylvania voters. The District Attorney cannot rewrite state law, but my office will stop wasting prosecutorial resources on standalone adult simple-possession marijuana cases, while continuing to prosecute impaired driving, illegal distribution, offenses involving minors, and other criminal conduct.

End costly death-penalty prosecutions in a state that has not carried out an execution since 1999, and a county that has never executed someone since the death penalty was reinstated.

Pennsylvania has not executed a single death row inmate since 1999, and only three people have been executed statewide since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. None were prosecuted in Cumberland County. Yet our District Attorney's Office continues to pursue death-penalty prosecutions at a far higher rate than most Pennsylvania counties, costing taxpayers millions of dollars in decades-long litigation that funds higher local taxes. The most serious crimes deserve serious consequences, but government owes taxpayers honesty about whether a policy accomplishes its purpose and what it actually costs. Every dollar our treatment courts have saved this county in the last decade is offset by the cost of irresponsible death-penalty prosecutions. I will end this tax-increasing practice.

Push for universal Crisis Intervention Team training, a Youth CIT program, and more diversion for mental-health cases.

When a family calls police because someone they love is in a mental-health crisis, they're asking government for help in one of the most frightening moments of their lives. Too often, officers arrive without the training to de-escalate before things turn physical, putting everyone at greater risk. I will work toward universal Crisis Intervention Team Training, lead efforts to establish a Youth CIT Program that includes schools in its implementation, expand diversion for appropriate mental-health cases away from unnecessary prosecution, and build stronger ties between police and treatment providers, so every crisis call is a chance to make things better, not worse.

Make juvenile cases a real priority, with early intervention that keeps young people from becoming adult offenders.

Juvenile cases will be treated as a genuine priority in my office, not an afterthought, because they represent our best chance to prevent a young person from becoming an adult offender. I will use early, developmentally appropriate intervention for young people whose behavior is connected to trauma, behavioral-health conditions, substance use, exploitation, or family instability, while maintaining the ability of victims to be heard and assisted through the process to improve outcomes for juveniles so they never become adult criminals.

Rebuild the Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative using my experience as a person deeply involved in the creation of Cumberland's Treatment Courts.

I helped build Cumberland County's Opiate Intervention Court, one of the first programs of its kind, later studied as a model for treatment-first approaches nationwide. I know how to build early intervention programs that actually work. The current administration's rollout of the Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative has been a mess, with the initial implementation assigned to junior prosecutors with no history of working in collaborative treatment justice settings. It has seen multiple rollouts of the same programming without any understanding of how to make a successful program for our community.   I have the track record to prove I can do it right.

Keep local prosecutors and police focused on local public safety, not acting as an arm of federal immigration enforcement.

Cumberland County's District Attorney answers to Cumberland County, not to Washington. The office should not impede lawful federal work, but it also should not turn our local prosecutors and police into an arm of federal immigration enforcement. Proactive cooperation with ICE should be reserved for genuinely violent offenders who threaten our neighbors, not extended to ordinary residents. Local resources belong to local public safety, and the people who live here deserve a justice system that protects the community rather than one that treats it as a target.

Personally prosecute election interference and protect voters, election officials, and volunteers from intimidation.

Every eligible Cumberland County voter has the right to cast a ballot without intimidation, interference, or threats, regardless of party or political belief. Election officials and volunteers deserve to do their jobs without becoming targets of harassment or conspiracy-driven intimidation. When election interference occurs, I will personally prosecute those cases and bring the full weight of my office's resources to bear. Protecting elections isn't Democratic or Republican work. It's the responsibility of anyone entrusted with defending the rule of law.