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Phone: (415) 444-7070
Email: criminal@marincourt.org
Location: Civic Center, Hall of Justice, Room C-10
Office Hours: 8:00am - 3:00pm
Support and Treatment After Release (STAR) Court
STAR Court is a court-supervised program for defendants who have serious mental illnesses, which require
medication, treatment and other services, and who choose to participate in STAR Court as an alternative
to traditional supervised probation. The goal of STAR Court is to decrease the frequency of clients'
contacts with the criminal justice system by improving their social functioning skills and by linking them
to employment, housing, regular treatment, and support services.
STAR Court works in collaboration with Marin County's STAR Program, which is a full service partnership
providing culturally competent, intensive, integrated services to mentally ill offenders. Clients must first
be in the STAR Program before they become eligible to participate in STAR Court.
The STAR Court Team includes a judicial officer, probation officer, district attorney, defense counsel,
STAR Program Case Manager and treatment providers.
Clients must sign an agreement to abide by the rules of STAR Court and the individual treatment plan developed
by the STAR Court Team. Typical agreements require participants to attend regular court sessions; take prescribed
medications faithfully; meet with a case manager regularly; lead law abiding lives; participate in treatment
plans and comply with the STAR Court Team's directives. When a participant graduates from STAR Court he or she may
have the underlying case reduced or dismissed and probation terminated.
STAR Court consists of 4 phases, each with a set of legal, housing, vocational and treatment components.
The program takes a minimum of 12 months to complete successfully. When participants successfully graduate
from the STAR Court they may have their misdemeanor related case dismissed, jail sentences stayed and probation
terminated.
To obtain further information, please contact the Probation Department at 415-499-6599.
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Collaborative Justice Courts
In Marin, several collaborative justice courts have been fully implemented in the last ten years. These include Adult Drug Court,
Juvenile Drug Court, Proposition 36 Court, STAR (Mental Health) Court and Family Violence Court. For more information
on these programs, please click on the links below.
Restorative Courts
The Marin Youth Court is an example of a restorative court program. For more information on Youth Court, please
click here.
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