Local Rule LR11-304. Post adjudication problem solving courts; ex parte communications.

[Related Statewide Rule 21-209 NMRA] District court judges presiding over problem solving courts in this district are expressly authorized to initiate, permit, and consider ex parte communications about the program’s participants with social workers, representatives of the treatment provider, court probation and surveillance officers, court program personnel, and other members of the problem solving court’s operational team. Ex parte communications are authorized to occur individually or in the context of operational team meetings except that individual ex parte communications are not authorized between the district court judge and the law enforcement member, if any, of the operational team.