Item B12
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: 4/17/02
Bulk Item: Yes_No X
Division: Mavor McCov
Department: BOCC-3
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Proclamation proclaiming the month of May 2002 as National Drug Court Month.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
DOCUMENTATION: Included: X
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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 1,200 drug courts that are in operation or in the planning stages; and
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the power vested in me as Mayor of Monroe County,
Florida, I, CHARLES 'SONNY' MCCOY, do proclaim the Month of May, 2002 as
National Drug Court Month
in Monroe County, 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.
DATED this 17th day of April, 2002.
CHARLES 'SONNY' MCCOY, MONROE COUNTY MAYOR
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