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A MEMORIAL

PROCLAIMING TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008, AS "DRUG COURT DAY" AT

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

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 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

WHEREAS, 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

WHEREAS, 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;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that Tuesday,

February 5, 2008, be proclaimed "Drug Court Day" at the house

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of representatives to honor 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 use and crime; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be

transmitted to the administrative office of the courts.