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Bad Check Restitution Program

 
Each year in Sweetwater County local merchants lose thousands of dollars to bad check activity. In turn, consumers share in these losses through higher prices.

To combat this problem the Sweetwater County Attorney's Office has created a program to track down bad check writers and recover losses for their victims.

The County Attorney's Office Bad Check Restitution Program forms a partnership between the Sweetwater County Attorney's Office and the local business community while removing some of the burden bad checks place on local police. This approach to the bad check problem provides additional resources to obtain restitution, to protect the public and to seek justice in these matters at no cost to bad check victims or Sweetwater County taxpayers.

Please take the time to read the following information regarding fraudulent checks before submitting bad checks for restitution and / or prosecution:
 


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