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Thursday, October 09, 2008
Ind. Courts - "Juvenile drug court opens in Porter County"
James D. Wolf Jr. reports today in the Gary Post-Tribune in a story that begins:
VALPARAISO -- The Porter County Juvenile and Family Drug Court, the third such court in the state, officially opened Wednesday.At 2:30 p.m., court and probation officials cut the ribbon to the revamped section of the juvenile center on U.S. 2.
By 3:30 p.m., they were seeing their first case.
"Everyone for many years has thought that a juvenile drug court would be a good thing, but it takes a lot of time and money," Amy Beier, chief juvenile probation officer, said at the opening.
Besides years of work to develop the program, which will take cases of juveniles where drugs or alcohol were a factor out of the juvenile system, the many people involved had to get it approval from downstate first.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 9, 2008 08:56 AM
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