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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Cervantes
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
1/29/08
HM 30
SHORT TITLE
Proclaiming Tuesday, February 5, 2008, As
"Drug Court Day"
SB
ANALYST Shaya
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Proclaiming Tuesday, February 5, 2008, as "Drug Court Day"
at the New Mexico House of
Representatives.
The Memorial provides the following statements about the Big Brothers Big Sisters programs:
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
Drug court programs are the original form of drug policy reform and 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
crimes; and
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 drug court movement have had a profound
impact on their communities through their hard work and commitment; and
The drug court movement has grown in New Mexico from one drug court in 1994 to
some thirty-four drug courts in operation or in the planning stages;
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