- Enhance public safety by reducing the number of traffic accidents, injuries and deaths related to DUI/drug offenses in the community.
- Require strict accountability through frequent in-person court hearings and intensive monitoring.
- Provide cost effective treatment services that will improve program completion rates and reduce recidivism.
- Promote personal responsibility.
- Educate the public about the benefits of providing treatment to drug/alcohol offenders to create a safer community.
- Reduce thinking errors, abstain from drug/alcohol use, and impaired driving behaviors.
- Reduce emergency room, other medical costs and the use of public assistance.
- Reduce court, jail and prison and overcrowding and associated costs in the criminal justice system.
- Require completion of education.
- Require W-2 tax paying employment.
- Develop partnerships among drug courts, public agencies, and community-based organizations to generate local support and enhance overall program effectiveness.