Augusta Judicial Circuit Veterans Treatment Court, serving Burke and Richmond Counties (Judges Jesse Stone and Ashley Wright; Program Director Amber Brewer)

The court is a veterans court division under Code section 15-1-17 (see the Georgia entry): the Augusta Judicial Circuit Adult Felony Veterans' Treatment Program, one of the circuit's three adult felony accountability courts with drug and mental health tracks, presided over by Superior Court Judge Jesse C. Stone and Judge Ashley Wright with programme director Amber Brewer (706-261-0432, 735 James Brown Blvd., Suite 2101, Augusta, GA 30901) leading the team. The Council of Accountability Court Judges' directory rows it as the "Augusta Circuit Veterans Treatment Court", a Veterans Treatment Court whose "Program Judge(s): Judge Jesse Stone and Ashley Wright", "Program Director: Amber Brewer", "Counties Served: Burke and Richmond", "Program Implemented: September 2014." Who may enter, by the circuit's eligibility page. Age 18 or older; a U.S. citizen; a resident of Burke or Richmond County; pending felony charges ("cannot enter on misdemeanors alone"); and facts and charges "indicative of active substance abuse". Disqualified: serious violent felonies, trafficking, armed robbery, previous completion or termination of any accountability court programme, pending federal charges, parole holds, and people undocumented or unauthorised. The programme is a 24-month, five-phase intensive outpatient substance use disorder treatment programme, Phase 1 minimum three months through Phase 5 minimum six. The circuit's other tracks. The same directory rows the Augusta Circuit Drug Court (Judges Stone and Wright, Director Brewer, July 2008), the Augusta Circuit Mental Health Court (July 2012), the Augusta Circuit Family Treatment Court (Judge Tianna Bias, coordinator Audrey Sutton, July 2023) and the Augusta Circuit Juvenile Drug Court (July 2024), each serving Burke and Richmond; Burke County's own DUI Court (Judge Jackon E. Cox, coordinator Lynda Jones, January 2006) sits in the county. The Richmond County entry in this catalog carries the circuit's fuller record - the district attorney's veterans-court page, the five-phase rules and the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council grant lines; a Burke veteran reads that entry beside this one.