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lC FAOM � ��— . ' �� C 1/ oATE , oIJUJLCT QTT OP CVERCiI. C'.'I.IiLil. AOASryRlGTON Orange County, California, has i:wo programs: an unlocked facility �vith a follow-on prograin and a locked facility which includes treatment. All persons arrested and sentenced for "drunl: in public" are placed in one or the other program. In Seattle tlie Sheriff's office operates Cedar TIills which is a facility far out in the country to which unattached alcoholic males convic'ed of public intoxication are placed for a sufFicient period for drying out and treatment, Without a similar program of some type in our coinmiznity �ve inay be increasing our drunk load by approximately 15 to 30 persons by ciosi.ng the Unsworth "Mission, " In the City oF Everett we ha��e filed appro:cimately 67 "drunlc in public" charges per month over the past three years. These charges are made as judiciously as possiUle by the Police Department and where a person is not causing a public disturbance or sleeping or wandering the streets in a drunken condition, most intosicated persvns are left al�ne. Accordingly, Uy closing a favorite haunt for i:lie unattac]ied alcoholic inalc, I feel assured that we may expect an increase in handling drunlcs. Accordingly, it is my recommendation, after consultation witli Jiin Luarl:, L;secutive Director of the Snohomish County Alcoholism Information and Referral Center, that before commencing abatement of this type of slielter the City further investigate establishment of some sort of primary alcoholism recovery houses to �vhich persons senter�ced for public intoYication may Ue placed and receive some sort of treatment program. Perhaps, the City could establish a Detoiification Center to which drunks could Le taken directly tiyithout Uoolcing or other legal, court and/or jail costs. Or the City could possibly contract tivith an alr•oholism treatment resource facility, such as APOA�, Everett Rescue Mission, Recovery Incorporated, or otlier treatment clinics to provide alcoholism holding facilities znd treatment. If we had to boolc a drunk, �ve could encourage the judge to sentence a person tivho was drunk in public or on an alcohol.ism-related charge to sentence him for 30 to 60 days. Then we could asl: tLe judge to suspend the sentence on coudition that the person go to the recovery ce�itei• for which the City has contractual services. lf the person under suspended sentence leaves the facility then a warrant couid be put out for his arrest, or the next time hc is caught his sentence tivould be 30 to 60 days in the jail itself. In tliis manner we tivouid have lo�v security facilities provided at a ininimal cost (it should be remembered that if a person is sent to a recovery house while under sentence, then lus continued presence is the responsibility of tl�e jailer and securit5� measui�es are required wliich arc quite ctipensive).