Wednesday, March 23, 1983/The Battalion/Page 7
Bill to give option
in drunk arrests
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Senate will
consider a bill that gives police
the option to take non
disorderly drunks to treatment
centers rather than to jail.
With public drunkenness
accounting for roughly one-
third of all arrests in the state,
Sen. Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena,
said treatment facilities must be
established to deal with drunks.
“If we’re going to enhance
penalties for DWI and give
judges treatment options, we
need this bill to start developing
the community treatment cem
ters,” Brooks said.
“We have evolved now to the
question of what is the appropri
ate place for treatment. Is it
through the revolving doors of a
jail or in an appropriate treat
ment center.”
Brooks sponsored the mea
sure which won unanimous sup
port from the Health and Hu
man Resources Committee. The
committee sent the bill to the full
Senate. A similar bill is under
consideration in the House.
Ross Newby, executive dire
ctor of the Texas Commissior
on Alcoholism, has termed th^
bill a divergence rather than
decriminalization measure.
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one word,” Newby said. “Undei
decriminalization, it would sa)
an arresting officer shall take ar
offender to a place of treatment
“Under divergence, it says tht
officer can take an offender to £
place of treatment. Divergence
does not mandate anything.”
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Tests show brain damage
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■ DALLAS — Independent
njedical tests show evidence of
organic brain damage in the first
21 young people examined be
cause they lived near two con
troversial lead smelters, an
attorney revealed.
I The development Monday
came as a Georgia congressman
charged that acting Environ
mental Protection Agency
Administrator John Hernandez
rejected a 1981 plan to clean up
lead-contaminated soils near the
two smelters.
Attorney Jane Saginaw' said
extensive medical and psycholo
gical examinations of the young
people, ranging from six to 16-
years-old, showed evidence of
neurological problems related
to lead exposure. She said she
expects to find similar results in
older people as they are tested.
Saginaw represents more
than 200 young people, ranging
from one to 18-years-old, who
charge that lead pollution from
the smelters caused them to suf
fer neurological damage, learn
ing disabilities and other health
problems.
Meanwhile, Bill H. McAnal-
ley, an EPA toxicologist from
1979 to 1982, said he and Dr.
Norman Dyer, chief of toxic
substances, sought cleanup of
the lead-tainted soil but were re
buffed by superiors.
“This was the worst case I
know of in the region for a
potential and imminent
hazard,” said McAnalley.
On Feb. 1, the EPA, the city of
Dallas and the federal Center
for Disease Control in Atlanta
released a study that found
potentially harmful lead levels
in 14 preschool children — 5.6
percent — living within half a
mile of RSR Corp. in West
Dallas.
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V SAN ANTONIO — A former
Bexar County jail employee has
filed a $1 million sexual harrass-
rnent lawsuit against Sheriff Joe
Neaves and four other jail offi
cials.
Alma Rios, 31, a divorced
mother of four, charged in a suit
filed Monday that she was fired
jast September for failing to sub-
dnit to sexual advances from jail
employees.
I The official reasons given for
Rios’ firing were abusing sick
leave and refusing to abide by
rules and regulations. She was,
however, fired just two days af
ter a television station aired her
allegations.
| Rios claimed in the suit that
Sexual harassment caused her to
Suffer a nervous breakdown,
which required hospitalization.
I “I couldn’t take it any more. I
had to kick one guy where it
hurts because I ref used to be his
woman,” Rios told a San Anto
nio newspaper.
U The suit claims that former
jail Commander Manuel Arcos
and Sgt. Michael McClure
approached her for the purpose
of having sexual relations and
that Neaves, Capt. Ray Paez and
jail employee Annie Hall put the
harassment into effect.
Rios said the suit was filed af
ter the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission failed
to act on her charges of sexual
harassment.
Neaves denied the charges,
saying “I haven’t been served
with the papers yet, but from
what I know, she’s a disgruntled
fired employee, and I think
there’s something wrong with
her.”
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