tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517275423710442887.post8685030217985793590..comments2024-03-19T08:49:06.282-04:00Comments on The Law Blogger: Oakland Prosecutor Sticks with Decision to Quit Sobriety CourtsThe Law Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03691213277243372252noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517275423710442887.post-13675977463091129862013-01-10T17:23:28.456-05:002013-01-10T17:23:28.456-05:00I am currently in sobriety court through oakland c...I am currently in sobriety court through oakland county 52-1. I'm 60 days in and if you ask me its all about money! Phase 1 consists of testing daily pbts and you have a color for your drug screening which you call every morning between 6am and 7:30. You have to pay $2 a day to blow and $4 a day to drop so there is $6 dollars a day for that. You take a monthly ETG which costs $16 dollars which is pointless since were all ready drug testing and blowing! An ETG detects alcohol from what i hear back up to two weeks but what does that matter if your already testing daily. I have counceling that i pay for once a week. I pay smart start $95 dollars a month to have a camera in my car to watch me blow which is also pointless, bc i am already testing daily anyways. So anyways I pay 150 a month for testing 95 a month for smart start we will say 100 a month for counseling on top of my 2000 dollar driver responsiblilty, in a few month I will get my court fines and costs, which i have already paid 800 of which will probably be 800 more. So tell me how it isnt about money? and is really helping us? because its not, it is not a treatment program we do NOTHING but test like normal people in jams do it just costs more and we just have to show up on time otherwise you get commuinty service or go to jail. Oh and you have to go to AA daily, which is honistly to much maybe 4 times a week would actually do some good because you get tired and bored of going bc ppl tell the same story everyday and you get sick of telling your EVERYDAY. So theres what it is from "the toughest" 52-1 district court (NOVI) Oakland county Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517275423710442887.post-64262789321814803602009-11-23T05:44:21.992-05:002009-11-23T05:44:21.992-05:00Dear Mr. Blow:
Having participated in the sobriet...Dear Mr. Blow:<br /><br />Having participated in the sobriety court in Clarkston, I can relate that there were at least six grads each session. Sometimes we had 12-15, and we had two graduations per year. Novi graduated about 20 per year, as did Waterford. Over time, the numbers were building. Hundreds graduated from the Clarkston in the time I was there; thousands spread-out across the county.<br /><br />Yes, times are tough and budget cuts are everywhere. I thought demonstrably safer roads would have been a higher priority. The sobriety court goes way beyond helping six drunks a year. That now-sober driver may have driven past you or me on some night this year; if so, then we have benefitted from the program as well.The Law Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691213277243372252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517275423710442887.post-48413266335147543502009-11-23T03:46:49.611-05:002009-11-23T03:46:49.611-05:00Very few people graduate from the programs, maybe ...Very few people graduate from the programs, maybe six people a session. Very beneficial to those six, but for the rest of society? Not sure. The expenses I saw, from staff, to bagels, to expensive catered lunches can't possibly help add to the heafty drug court costs. Everyone else is cutting back, why not the cut the program that helps six drunks a year?Joe Blownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517275423710442887.post-33712383247183469552009-09-24T22:49:17.564-04:002009-09-24T22:49:17.564-04:00I'm a graduate of sobriety court, in Novi, and...I'm a graduate of sobriety court, in Novi, and it changed my life. Keep those courts going.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7517275423710442887.post-39345461906538376792009-09-20T19:34:18.702-04:002009-09-20T19:34:18.702-04:00would you just get off it. when people commit cri...would you just get off it. when people commit crimes, they need to go to jail, no matter what offense they commit. as a taxpayer, i don't want any county money going to bs programs like thistight waddiehttp://waddie.comnoreply@blogger.com