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Old 05-20-2009, 03:02 AM
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Tsar7
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Kansas city. Mo
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Court Ordered NA

My little town in California was a pilot program for court slips many years ago. It worked and no one minded. So the judges began sending more and more. It got chaotic with 90 percent in meetings being court ordered. We began having violence and anger issues.

The court people didn't seem to put money in the basket. The oldtimers who always donated slowly left the Alano Club meetings and started having meetings in their homes.

After 25 years, the Alano Club couldn't pay the rent and closed. Now the judges get no signed court slips. The county rented a building for AA to meet in and no oldtimers would go there.

Now a probation officer runs the meeting and records who is there. You have to list your first and last name, address and phone number and your PO. I go some times and it's ok, other times I go to meetings in peoples homes

Like I said, at first it was very effective.
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