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Hamilton judge reports municipal 'Opt for Help and Hope' recovery court has graduated participants
Summary
Hamilton Township's municipal recovery court, called Opt for Help and Hope, was presented to council with program statistics, federal/state funding context and a pending monitoring arrangement with Johns Hopkins University.
Judge (name not specified), the presiding municipal judge in Hamilton Township, told council the township’s new municipal recovery court, Opt for Help and Hope, has enrolled people and produced multiple program graduates.
The judge said the recovery court is a state-run pilot funded with opioid settlement money the New Jersey attorney general directed toward municipal drug courts. “Two years ago, the attorney general in New Jersey chose to use $2,000,000 worth of the opioid settlement money … to do a drug court in municipal court,” the judge said. He told council Hamilton was one of six municipal courts selected for the pilot and said the court has been monitored by Johns Hopkins University.
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