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Lake Havasu judge tells Arizona commission veterans courts cut recidivism, urges better data and outreach
Summary
Judge Mitchell Kalui told the Arizona Veterans Services Advisory Commission that Lake Havasu’s veterans treatment court has reduced repeat offending, saved community resources and depends on a local Veterans Resource Team; he urged better veteran identification in courts and statewide data collection to secure funding.
Judge Mitchell Kalui of the Lake Havasu City Municipal Court told the Arizona Veterans Services Advisory Commission on May 22 that Lake Havasu’s veterans treatment court has sharply reduced repeat criminal behavior among participating veterans and stressed the need to identify veterans early and collect outcome data for state funding.
Kalui, who helped start Lake Havasu’s court more than a decade ago, said the town’s Veterans Resource Team coordinates services such as emergency rent, utility assistance and transportation and that the team filled service gaps during the court’s early years. “The court system is the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff,” Kalui said. “What we really need is to push all of those services up onto the top of…
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