SIX GRADUATE FROM SHASTA COUNTY’S DRUG COURT Posted January 20, 2012 at 11:45 p.m., The Record Searchlight, redding.com Judge Cara Beatty (left) talks about the successes of Addicted Offender Program graduates Ashley Kuhns-McCain (center), Ilena Barreau, Raymond Byrd, Donna Miller, Julie Roseann Pico and Savannah McCoey during their commencement ceremony Friday at the Shasta
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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT PRESS RELEASE Santa Barbara County celebrates the implementation of a Veterans Treatment Court in Santa Maria Santa Maria – On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Santa Barbara County will celebrate the launch of the county’s first Veterans Treatment Court with an inaugural ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Cultural Center in Santa
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In 1994, the City of San Bernardino started what was then a novel experiment. Instead of sending people arrested for drug offenses through the court system, San Bernardino started a Drug Court. As we’ve noted here previously, Drug Court is a drug-intervention program administered through the court system to divert defendants from jail and into
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“I’ve been working for two years to help set up the first adult Alcohol and Other Drug Courts in New Zealand. The Parliament just funded two courts for five years at $2 million/year. I will be bringing trainers to NZ in March to get the teams ready. Very exciting stuff.” Judge Peggy Hora (Alameda County
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by Roberta Albano bobbi.albano@yahoo.com Mary is a beautiful, slender woman in her 40s. She works in the aerospace industry during the day and tonight, she will be going to her Human Services class at San Bernardino Valley College. “Mary” is not her real name; she asked me to not reveal her name because anonymity is a
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Program, the treatment arm of county probation, helps rehabilitate, save lives By Marga K. Cooley, Associate Editor Angela Giles is no stranger to the harsh world of drug addiction. Her dad died from a heroin overdose, other close relatives are addicts, and in the last 18 months she’s had three of her childhood friends
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Report gives high marks to county’s Family Dependency Drug Court By KAREN RIFKIN Updated: 10/01/2011 11:59:38 PM PDT Sid Gardner, president of Children and Family Futures, presented an optimistic interim report to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday morning concerning the 81 parents and 126 children who are being served by the Mendocino County Family Dependency
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