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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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