A MULTICULTURAL FIVE-YEAR MASTER PLAN FOR THE REDUCTION OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG PROBLEMS IN SAN MATEO COUNTY

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I. ENFORCEMENT: Activities which implement policies, including sanctions, in order to reduce alcohol and drug availability and use.


1. Challenge: As discussed in 8f, above (goals not repeated here), most of the time, budget, and energy of the criminal justice system is absorbed by activities associated with alcohol and other drug, problems, including DUI, repeat DUI, fatal injury accident DUI, public inebriety, and domestic violence. An overtaxed Probation Department "banks" categories of cases thought to require less supervision in favor of more intense client concerns.

Goals/Recommendations:

a.

Provide for more probation officers to monitor, survey, contact, and test smaller numbers of probationers. (CJ; Long-Term) (Priority)
 

b.

Review and consider the costs associated with incarceration against the costs of more intensive probationary supervision. (CJ; Short-Term)
 
 

2. Challenge: Many alcohol and drug problems relate to law and youth, and there is a clear need to break the cycle in the next Generation. There is increasing gang activity, particularly involving culturally identified (Black, Filipino, Latino) gangs. Family alcohol and drug use, especially among teenagers, clearly indicates that youth cannot be dealt with in isolation.

Goals/Recommendations:

a.

Develop alcohol- and drug-free youth centers in areas of high concentration of multicultural groups, such as East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and Daly City. (H, SS, E, CJ; Long-Term)
 

b.

Provide training to law enforcement officers on alcohol and drug, problems among youth, in families, and in gangs. (H, SS, E; Short-Term and Ongoing)
 

c.

Provide training to staff in juvenile facilities on alcohol and drug problems. (H, SS; Short-Term and Ongoing)
 

d.

Develop programs that encourage sentencing alternatives, such as projects desioned to clean-up graffiti. (CJ; Short-Term and Ongoing)
 
 

3. Challenge: Drug dealing, especially by repeat offenders, in public places and in residential areas continues to be a source of community concern. In many instances property owners have a role in permitting drug dealing to go on, when they might better utilize their energy as part of a commumty partnership to end the problem.

Goals/Recommendations:

a.

Create alcohol- and drug-free zones in public parks, streets, and near schools and other areas where people congregate. (H, SS, CJ; Short-Term and Oncoing)
 

b.

b. Enforce laws that hold property owners accountable for drug dealing on their property. (CJ; Short-Term and Ongoing)
 
 

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