Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in Rodeo who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Rodeo are occasionally sent to participate at a drug treatment facility in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Rodeo, California, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.