Item B6BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: __April 20, 2011_______ Division: ____BOCC___Dis 3_______________
Bulk Item: Yes ____ No X Department: ___Mayor Heather Carruthers______
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Staff Contact /Phone #: _Carol Schreck__________
305-292-3430
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Presentation of Mayor’s Proclamation observing May 13, 2011 as Florida’s 12 Annual Statewide
Drug Court Graduation Celebration Day.
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ITEM BACKGROUND:
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2011 marks the 18 anniversary of the Monroe County Drug Court, the third Drug Court in the State
of Florida, and the fifth Drug Court in the nation. Eighteen years of restoring lives, reuniting families
and transforming communities, drug courts have had the most profound impact on substance abuse and
crime.
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Revised 7/09
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Annual Statewide Drug Court Graduation Celebration Day
May 13, 2011
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WHEREAS
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Annual Statewide Drug Court Graduation Ceremony in Key West at the Freeman Justice Center,
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WHEREAS
, 2011 marks the 18 anniversary of the Monroe County Drug Court, the
third Drug Court in the State of Florida and the fifth Drug Court in the nation. Eighteen years of
restoring lives, reuniting families and transforming communities, drug courts have had the most
profound impact on substance abuse and crime.
WHEREAS
, drug courts provide the focus and leadership for communitywide, anti-drug
systems, bringing together criminal justice, treatment, education, and other community partners
in the fight against drug abuse and criminality; and
WHEREAS
, drug courts combine intensive judicial supervision, mandatory substance
abuse treatment and drug-testing with escalating sanctions and incentives in order to break the
cycle of drug addiction and concomitant crime and turn defendants into productive, law-abiding
members of our society; and
WHEREAS
, drug courts not only reclaim lives lost to drug addiction and criminality, but
they reunify families, and save the State of Florida substantial taxpayer dollars by reducing the
number of incarcerated defendants.
NOWTHEREFORE
, , I, Mayor Heather Caruthers, Mayor of Monroe County, of
Florida, does hereby extend greetings and best wishes to Keynote Speaker Chief Justice Charles
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T. Canady and Annual Statewide Drug Court Graduation Celebration
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on May 13 2011, at 2:30pm, which recognizes practitioners and participants who make drug
courts work, and the significant contributions drug courts have made, and continue to make, in
reducing drug usage and crime in Florida and throughout the nation.
Signed on this 20th day of April, 2011
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Mayor Heather Carruthers