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WHEREAS, drug courts provide the focus and leadership for community-wide, anti-drug
systems, bringing together criminal justice, treatment, education and other community
partners in the fight against drug abuse and criminality;and
WHEREAS, drug court programs combine intensive judicial supervision, mandatory substance
abuse treatment and drug testing and escalating sanctions and incentives in order to break the
cycle of drug addiction and its concomitant crime;and
WHEREAS, the judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, treatment and rehabilitation
professionals, law enforcement and corrections personnel, researchers and educators, national
and community leaders and others dedicated to the movement have had a profound impact
through hard work and commitment to their communities;and
WHEREAS, the drug court movement has grown from the 12 original drug courts in 1994 to
over 700 drug courts that are in operation or in the planning stages and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra
Costa, California, does hereby declares that a "National Drug Court Month" be established the
Month of May, 2000, recognizing the practitioners and participants who make drug courts
work and the significant contributions that drug courts have made, and continue to make, in
reducing drug usage and crime.
PASSED by unanimous vote of the Board Members present on this 2nd day of May 2000.
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Donna Gee),, District I Mark Desaulnier, District IV
ABSENT
Joe Canciamilla, District V
Witness my hand and the Seal of the Board of
Supervisors affixed this 2nd day May,2000.
PHIL BATCHELOR,Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administrator
Deputy Clerk
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