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Courtroom to Schoolroom's "Choices & Consequences: Know the Truth" is a grant program that is funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety and sponsored by the Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County.
Choices & Consequences: Know the Truth is a program that conducts actual DUI sentencing hearings in local area schools. This program attempts to provide the students' information about the possible consequences of driving under the influence in a very fact based, non-didactic manner. This program is oriented towards the 8th through 10th grade, as this is the time in a student's life when they are beginning to form their opinions and judgment on this subject.
Our assemblies will begin with volunteers from the California Highway Patrol speaking to the students about some of the consequences of DUI collisions they have witnessed in their line of work. This may include the officer's first hand accounts, as well as recordings from 911 calls involving these collisions.
In the second part of the assembly, we will conduct the sentencing hearings of convicted DUI offenders for the students. These are not mock trials, but actual DUI offenders that have agreed to have their sentence deliberated in front of a public assembly. Students will have the opportunity to watch the defending and prosecuting attorneys deliberate over the offender's sentence, as well as hear the judge's verdict. By giving the students a chance to witness these real hearings we hope to provide a clearer picture of what the consequences of driving while under the influence can be.
These sentencing hearings will be followed up by an interactive discussion with the presiding judge, in which the students can talk to the judge and get informed answers to any questions they have about the subject and the hearing they just witnessed.
The Courtroom to Schoolroom program will also include a video presentation which will be created by a panel of student volunteers representing the schools who will take part in our assemblies. This video can be downloaded at links below.
NEW - What is Choices and Consequences? - 7MB
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