Media
Advisory
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2006
Contact:
Casey McEnry
Number: 415-436-7994
Multi
Agency Effort to Educate Youths on
Making Drug-Free Choices
Bay Area youths to participate in real-life scenarios
to demonstrate the consequences of their actions
WHO:
- Alameda County
Sheriff’s Office
- Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA)
- Bureau of Narcotics
Enforcement (BNE)
- California Highway
Patrol (CHP)
- California National
Guard
- San Lorenzo
Unified School District
- American Medical
Response
- Alameda County
Fire Department
- Children’s
Hopsital Oakland
WHAT:
-
Alameda County
Sheriff’s Office, DEA and BNE, along with support from other
state and local agencies will host the “Drug Store” to
educate youth on making the right choices. This Drug Store is for
Alameda County and will be directed at 300 seventh grade students
from Edendale Middle School of the San Lorenzo Unified School District.
Utilizing dramatizations, students will be directed through a series
of nine scenarios from utilizing drugs to paying the ultimate consequence.
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Ten Groups
of approximately 30 students at a time will be escorted through
the scenarios. During downtime students will view and participate
in static display activities which include a DEA clandestine methamphetamine
laboratory truck, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Posse, the
Alameda County Explosives Ordinance Division, Alameda County Special
Response Unit and K-9 Units, a BNE Interdiction Boat and helicopter,
a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter, CHP static display along with Ambulance
and Fire Units.
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The media is
invited to attend the event and film/photograph the scenarios.
WHEN:
-
STUDENTS ARRIVE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 26, 2006 @ 9:00 A.M. (Scenarios will begin @
9:30 am and run until 2:00 pm, MEDIA IS INVITED AT ANYTIME DURING
THESE HOURS)
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ARRIVING MEDIA
SHOULD REPORT TO DUNSMUIR HOUSE GATE FOR PARKING DIRECTIONS AND
CHECK IN.
WHERE:
- Dunsmuir House
and Gardens @ 2960 Peralta Oaks Court, Oakland, CA
NOTE: ALL media
MUST PRESENT GOVERNMENT-ISSUED PHOTO ID (such as driver’s license)
as well as VALID MEDIA CREDENTIALS. All press inquires regarding logistics
should be directed to Special Agent Casey McEnry at 408-422-6185 or
Alameda County Sheriff Lt. Jim Knudsen at 510-272-6901 or BNE Special
Agent Joe Banuelos at 415-923-4447.
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