Clatsop County Veterans Treatment Court

What it is. The Oregon Judicial Department's Treatment Courts page lists, for Clatsop: Adult Drug Court, Family Treatment Court, Mental Health Court and Veteran Treatment Court. The circuit court's own specialty-courts page describes its treatment courts as "managed by an interdisciplinary team, led by a judge, working collaboratively to provide wrap-around services to achieve specific goals", and details the Adult Drug Court (a one-year intensive programme for county residents charged with drug- or alcohol-related offenses, petition within 45 days of the first court appearance, [email protected]) and the Mental Health Treatment Court (for residents with a chronic mental illness on probation, post-prison supervision or facing charges, [email protected]) - the veterans track runs within this machinery rather than as its own section. The county's veterans treatment court launched in February 2024 as Oregon's fifth, on a roughly $129,000 Oregon Criminal Justice Commission grant, led by Judge Kirk Wintermute with a team that includes the county's veterans service officer, a veteran probation officer and a veteran mentor (The Astorian, March 2, 2024). How to ask. A defendant's counsel files a petition with the court (the drug court's 45-day rule shows the shape); the court publishes no separate veterans eligibility page, so the court's team sets eligibility. The court's records sit with the circuit court at 749 Commercial Street, Astoria.