BRAINERD, Minn. — The distribution of condoms through Crow Wing County Community Services was halted in January, after county officials learned it was occurring in the first place.

County Administrator Tim Houle said there is no policy supported by county board authorization that allowed employees of community services to distribute condoms.

Becky Twamley, executive director of WeARE Advocates for Reproductive Education, told a group at a League of Women Voters of the Brainerd Lakes Area meeting that WeARE received an estimated 3,000 condoms from Crow Wing County, “because they don’t give them out at their offices.” Some were expired, Twamley later clarified, and were used for educational purposes as part of the organization’s SxTalks at a Brainerd teen center, The Shop.

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Duluth police shot unarmed man through apartment door, BCA says The condoms were granted to Crow Wing County from the Minnesota Department of Health through its Condom Distribution Project, a program of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases/HIV/Tuberculosis Section.

Since 2008, Crow Wing County received 11,000 condoms from MDH. In an email, program manager Kara Griffin estimated the county was distributing about 600 each year to new mothers, along with information on the benefits of spacing pregnancies.