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How Can We Protect Children from Drug Abuse?

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Monday Morning

We had 16 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speakers, Nick and Vance from the Fond du Lac Police Department.  Happy Bucks were offered by Dan Leeds for his son Ezekiel’s return from a four month deployment and also for his other son Charlie’s position as goalie on the Maranatha Baptist University soccer team that won the NCAA Division II Championship last weekend, Glen Treml for the birth of their fourth grandchild, Finley John, who was born on Friday morning and Steve Millin in recognition of three NCAA record holders, Melvin Gordon, Ron Dayne and Monte Ball, all from the UW-Madison football program.  Jackie King was the 50/50 Raffle winner and she drew the Eight of Hearts, not a winner.  Next week’s pot will be $20 with 50 cards left in the deck and nine pay cards.

Drug Endangered Children, FdL Police Dept

The City of Fond du Lac Police Department in collaboration with the Fond du Lac County Department of Social Services, Fond du Lac County District Attorney’s Office, Fond du Lac School District, Probation and Parole, and Fond du Lac County Public Health Department, are pleased to announce the creation of a Drug Endangered Children (DEC) program for the City of Fond du Lac.

The purpose of the DEC Team is to collaboratively intervene on the behalf of the children who have been exposed to drug-endangered environments and are unsafe in those environments. DEC team members cooperate with each other so that parents/caretakers are vigorously and effectively prosecuted for child endangerment/abuse/neglect in addition to charges resulting from their illegal drug activities.

The continuing concern of substance abuse has forced DEC to respond more effectively and improve their response in drug-endangered environments.  DEC has pooled their expertise to become a collaborative effort and are determined to utilize all possible options to protect children from future harm of drug-endangered environments.

The foundation of DEC’s focus is to protect children in drug-endangered environments and to recognize that abusing drugs in the presence of children is child abuse/neglect. Exposing children to surroundings where drugs are used or sold is also an abusive and hazardous environment. The lack of attention and supervision where caretakers are under the impairment of drugs is neglect. These are all examples of child endangerment/abuse/neglect. They will investigate and prosecute to their fullest extent possible in cases where neglect/endangerment is evident.

DEC’s primary goals are: to minimize the re-victimization of drug-exposed children; to improve their health and safety by providing treatment and appropriate services to the family; and to develop a multi-disciplinary team maximizing their ability to respond to this devastating problem.

Thanks to Nick and Vance for an inside look into this new program to protect the young children in our community.

District Attorney Toney Discusses Law and Order in FdL County


Monday Morning
We had 18 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speaker Eric Toney. Bob Kahl had a “Happy Buck” for Deanna’s successful hip replacement surgery several weeks ago. Bob was quite proud of his newly recognized nursing skills. Gary Miller is looking for additional members who might be interested in attended an InterClub to the West Bend German Night on Tuesday evening, March 26th. Final chance to sign up will be at Monday’s meeting. Gary Miller also circulated “Thank Yous” from the Girl Scouts and the American Legion Auxiliary. Marlin Towne was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the eight of Diamonds, not a winner. Next Monday’s game will have 30 cards, eight pay cards and a pot of at least $282.

Eric Toney, Fond du Lac County District Attorney
Eric Toney is the newly elected FDL County DA and he joined us on Monday to talk about the DA’s Office. The mission of the Fond du Lac County District Attorney’s Office is to promote public peace and safety by just and vigorous prosecution; to seek and do impartial justice by ensuring that the guilty are punished and the innocent go free; to protect the health and welfare of children who are victims of child abuse and neglect; to safeguard the rule of law and to promote citizens’ participation in law enforcement by treating all persons who come in contact with the criminal justice system with fairness, dignity and respect. Eric told us that they have eight attorneys, including himself, in the DA’s office plus support staff. Five of the attorneys cover the five circuit judges in FDL County and three attorneys, funded through grants, cover the Misdemeanor Diversion Program, sexual assault cases and Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) cases. Eric also talked about the concept of a Drug Court that’s being explored in Fond du Lac County. The concept would hopefully get first time offenders, if they qualify, into a treatment program that would help them live normal, productive lives. The final words of wisdom from Eric were that speeding violations will no longer be plead to a non-speeding violation and failure to yield to emergency vehicles and school buses will be strictly enforced.