Walworth County travels new road with OWI court
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Walworth County Circuit Court Judge Robert Kennedy makes a point Tuesday during a session of the new Walworth County Operating While Intoxicated Court. The collaborative intervention program aims to change defendants’ behavior and keep them from re-offending.
ELKHORN — In life, unlike in baseball, three strikes doesn’t necessarily mean you’re out. However, participants in the new Walworth County Operating While Intoxicated Court quickly learn that they may never get a better chance for a positive, productive life if they swing and miss at this opportunity.
County officials have studied the sobering combination of drinking and driving for most of the past decade — a problem that all too often has ended in tragedy — and they’re optimistic that this new behavior modification model will help stop impaired driving incidents one defendant at a time.
OWI court started Oct. 4 for the program’s first five participants, who must appear in Judge Robert Kennedy’s courtroom at the Walworth County Judicial Center in Elkhorn every other Tuesday for review hearings ... CONTINUED
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