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Sobriety court graduate urges commissioners not to cut Eaton County treatment courts

5419201 · July 17, 2025
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Summary

A sobriety court graduate told the Eaton County Board that the county's treatment court program saved his life and warned that cutting funding would increase costs elsewhere and cost lives.

Kevin Tu, a graduate of Eaton County’s sobriety court program, urged the Board of Commissioners during limited public comment to maintain funding for treatment courts and described how the program helped his recovery.

“I graduated from the program successfully on 02/02/2022,” Tu told commissioners, describing a history of substance use, repeated DUIs and a serious accident that led him to residential…

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