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A MEMORIAL

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

THE SENATE.

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 SENATE OF THE

STATE OF NEW MEXICO that Tuesday, February 5, 2008, be

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proclaimed "Drug Court Day" at the senate 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.