Item B10
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Dat.:.; April 16, 2003
Division:
District 1
Bulk Item: Yes
No
Department: Mayor Dixie M. Spehar
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Proclamation to declare month of April, 2003 as "National Drug Court Month".
ITEM BACKGROUND:
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.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes
No
COST TO COUNTY:
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No
AMOUNT PER MONTH
Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty OMB/Purchasing _ Risk Management_
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
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Mayor ixie M. Spehar
DOCUMENTATION:
Included
To Follow
Not Required_
DISPOSITION:
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f'roclamatlon
WHEREAS, drug courts provide the focus and leadership for community-
wide" anti-drug systems, bringing together criminal justice, treatment, education
and ether comm~nity partners in the fight against drug abuse and criminality; and
WHEREAS, drug court programs are the original form of drug policy
reform and combine intensive judicial supervision, mandatory substance abu$e .
treatment and drug testing and escalating sanctions and incentives in order to
break the cycle of drug addiction and its associated 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
corrimitment 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
WHEREAS, 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.
NOW, THEREFORE. by the power vested in me as Mayor of Monroe
County, Florida, I do hereby proclaim April, 2003 as
NATIONAL. DRUG COURT MONTH
WITNESS my hand and seal of the County of Monroe, Florida, this 16th
day of April, 2003.
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ayar DiXIe M. Spehar
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