Underage drinking efforts
The Human Services Committee recently announced the winners of their "Alcohol Awareness Week Logo and Slogan Contest." (To see the winners, look for the "Cheshire Cares" link to the left.)
And unrelated to Human Services, but something that may be of interest to those who are interested in underage drinking... the following is an email excerpt from a California Juvenile Court Judge who happened to stop by the blog recently. Her comments are about what California is doing to reduce underage drinking:
One effective tactic is making surrender of the juvenile's drivers license a condition of informal probation. This can be done if charges are filed, or informally on a local law enforcement diversion program. In California , our Vehicle code permits parents to withdraw permission for a minor to drive, effectively cancelling the minor's license. It's not a suspension or criminal action. The parent commits as part of an informal diversion agreement not to allow jr to have his license back for the agreed-upon period (usually 6 months to a year). The dept of Motor Vehicles is informed on a form given to the parent by the police, and filed by the police (parents can file it also, but having the police do it ensures timely filing.) If Jr. is caught driving without a license, he's not covered by his parent's insurance policy and out here it's a misdemeanor with a $606 fine. Breathalyzers are used out here frequently for minors, but usually with police or probation department involvement.
I found that interesting.
Tim White
Town Council, Human Services Committee liaison
9 comments:
According to the High School proncipal there are only a "few" stidennts that have drug or alcohol problems, maybe two at the most. Read last weeks Cheshire Herald, 5 of them all got caught at the same place, same time, all played football. The issue is bigger, face the facts and fix it.
Not surprising that 5 football players got caught. Wonder if there was any punishment in lieu of the changes made to the drug & alcohol policy. Somehow I doubt much was done. Funny how the coach is the dare officer yet he can't control the kids he coaches. Not very effective. Course this is the same coach who was at a party years ago knowing full well that there were kegs of beer in the basement.
The ignorance of the great unwashed never ceases to amaze...
I am very interested in this. Who were the five football players and when was the arrest. I want to follow-up with the BOE, so list the names and the dates and I will let you know what they say.
Tim - I looked into what 7:53 and 9:56 said above and I found their statements about arrests to be untrue. That leads to the question why would they do this?
So was it in the Herald or not? If it was in the Herald and not true, what's with that?
Why make up stories about students at the high school? Is it to prove that the admim. has no control? Is this a budget issue? These people are sick and need help.
The info on the students and drinking was in the Herald two or three weeks ago under the police blotter.
Really I did not see it. How do you know that they are involved in sports? I saw some 10-9's but not five are you sure that your right?
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