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New LEAD program targets cycle of addiction and arrest
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Effort offers services, treatment to prevent repeat offenses By Bruce Krasnow
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CDC: Caffeine intake common among kids In the first analysis to examine national trends on children’s caffeine intake, the government finds 75 percent of U.S. children and young adults consume at least some caffeine. PAgE A-2
2014 LEGISLATURE
Committee moves to merge trio of indigent care bills
Meet Richard, a 23-year-old who has been booked into jail 14 times for larceny, burglary, failure to appear, possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia. In the past three years, he has spent 681 days in the Santa Fe County jail at a cost of $65,000. Meet Rose, a 25-year-old with a history of cocaine and heroin use who is regularly picked up for shoplifting and burglary. She has been arrested 16 times, spending 316 days
in jail and costing taxpayers $30,000. Then there is Tina, who has no violent arrests, but shoplifts to support a heroin habit. She has spent 348 days in jail at a cost of $33,000. The three — these are not their real names — are among the top 100 property crime and drug offenders, who have been arrested a total of 590 times by Santa Fe police officers since 2010. Police officers have spent 5,000 hours on these offenders;
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From left, District Attorney Jason Lidyard listens as Casey Salazar, a detective with the Santa Fe Police Department, discusses Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program during a LEAD meeting last week at the city of Santa Fe’s Railyard offices. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Reservoir repair work continues Cold temporarily freezes intake structure project, but official says build is still on track
By Robert Nott The New Mexican
After three and a half hours of debate Sunday, the Senate Public Affairs Committee postponed an action to move three bills regarding the funding of indigent care to the Senate Finance Committee, agreeing instead to try to sew the three bills into one by Tuesday. At the crux of the action is the need to find some $45 million to shore up the state’s indigent care fund, which was previously known as the Sole Community Provider program. That money can then be leveraged into a 3-to-1 Medicaid match from the federal government, totaling about $190 million for hospitals across the state to provide indigent medical care. Though counties and hospitals have been providing money for the indigent fund, proponents say that if they do not resolve the issue during the session, the state may lose some of the federal money — and hospital
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ON OuR wEBSITE u Read previous coverage of the 2014 legislative session at www.santafe newmexican.com.
Today Mostly cloudy; evening flurries. High 52, low 27.
Robert Jorgensen, an engineer with the Sangre de Cristo Water Division and project manager for the new intake structure at the Nichols and McClure reservoirs, takes a look at the 70-year-old intake tower at Nichols Reservoir on Sept. 26. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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$5.5 million project to replace aging water intake structures at the city’s two reservoirs will give utility crews more control over the flows to a nearby treatment center and will make the job of maintaining the valves much safer, a city official says. With any luck, said Nick Schiavo, acting director of the Santa Fe Public
Utilities Department, after the work is completed in the fall, workers never again will have to row a boat out to the old, dank intake towers in the two municipal reservoirs east of the city, climb down into the structures and manually adjust the cantankerous water valves. “The intake structures are not precise, not comfortable and not safe,” Schiavo said, adding that the towers
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Tribes soon will be able to prosecute some abuse crimes committed by non-Indians on reservations By Sari Horwitz
A reading of Jerome Kilty’s adaptation of correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with Alaina Warren Zachary and Jonathan Richards, 3 p.m., St. John’s Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail, $15, visit renesan.org for details. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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Law offers ‘sliver’ of protection to Native women
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WHITE EARTH NATION, Minn. — Lisa Brunner remembers the first time she saw her stepfather beat her mother. She was 4 years old, cowering under the table on the Ojibwe reservation, when her stepfather grabbed his shotgun from the rack. She heard her mother scream, “No, David! No!” “He starts beating my mother over the head and I could hear the sicken-
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ing thud of the butt of the shotgun over her head,” Brunner said. “Then he put the gun back on the rack and called her a [expletive]. He slammed the bedroom door and sat down on the squeaky bed. And then I heard the thud-thud of his cowboy boots as he laid down, squeaking again, and he went to sleep.” There were many more beatings over the years, Brunner said. Twenty years later, she said, she was brutally assaulted by her own husband on the same Indian reservation, a large swath
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of Minnesota prairie that has seen its share of sorrow for generations. An estimated 1 in 3 Native American women are assaulted or raped in their lifetimes, and 3 in 5 experience domestic violence. But in the cases of Brunner and her mother, the assailants were white, not Native American, and that would turn out to make all the difference. For decades, when a Native American woman has been assaulted or raped by a man who is non-Indian, she has had little or no recourse. Under long-standing law in Indian Country, reservations are sovereign nations with their own police departments and courts in charge of pros-
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ecuting crimes on tribal land. But Indian police have lacked the legal authority to arrest non-Indian men who commit acts of domestic violence against Native women on reservations, and tribal courts have lacked the authority to prosecute the men. Last year, Congress approved a law — promoted by the Obama administration — that for the first time will allow Indian tribes to prosecute certain crimes of domestic violence committed by non-Indians in Indian Country. The Justice Department on Thursday announced it had chosen three tribes for a pilot project
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