Kate Giammarise of WESA
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Counties are waiting to hear if an oversight board will publicly approve their strategies.
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Spotlight PA and WESA are requesting opioid settlement spending reports from all 67 counties in Pennsylvania to provide transparency into the process.
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Counties must report how they spent tens of millions of dollars they received in the first rounds of opioid settlement payments.
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With McKeesport signing on in November, Allegheny County will get a full payout from the opioid settlement fund this year.
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Opioid payments for county governments and county district attorney offices equaled about $6.50 per resident across the state last year. But there were big differences.