Friday, January 4, 2013

Ventura homeless court begins as trial run for possible expansion

Ventura County Star
When Anna Vacca walked into Room 37 of Ventura County Superior Court on a recent Wednesday, she was facing drinking-in-public charges. By the time she walked out, she had agreed to participate in a pilot program that could lead to the charges being dropped. Vacca is now part of Community Intervention Court, a program put together by the Ventura Police Department, Ventura County Superior Court and others to get those repeatedly accused of vagrancy-related crimes off the street and into treatment programs.