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Newsbrief:
California
Governor
Finally
Appoints
Drug
Czar
in
Wake
of
Proposition
36
11/17/00
After waiting nearly two
years, and only days after voters approved a sweeping drug sentencing reform
initiative, California Governor Gray Davis has appointed Kathryn Jett as
his first director of the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs.
In that capacity, Jett will
oversee the implementation of Proposition 36.
Jett, 47, will leave her
current position as director of the California Attorney General's Crime
and Prevention Center, where she oversaw programs such as those providing
local law enforcement agencies with training materials for Neighborhood
Watch programs. While at the center, Jett also served on a committee
of the California Peace Officers' Association, a group that lobbied hard
against Prop. 36.
Jett also serves as chair
of the executive committee of the Crime Prevention Coalition of America,
a law enforcement-heavy organization whose primary claim to fame is its
support of the "McGruff the Crime Dog" campaign, with its "Take A Bite
Out Of Crime" slogan.
Jett will have a formidable
task ahead of her in implementing Prop. 36, especially if she attempts
to undercut the successful initiative. The new law's supporters are
already pressuring Governor Davis to immediately release the first $60
million of $120 million authorized by the initiative to begin implementation
of its mandate to divert some 36,000 drug offenders from jail or prison
to drug treatment.
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Issue #160, 11/17/00
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