County of Alameda
Probation Center
Drug Court Services Office

400 Broadway, 3rd Floor Annex

Oakland, CA 94607

Rene C. Davidson
Alameda County Courthouse
Adjudicated Felon Drug Court Services

Departments 8 & 11

1225 Fallon Street

Oakland, CA 94612

Built in 1956, the Probation Center provides rehabilitative opportunities for adult and juvenile offenders in compliance with State law. The center houses Probation Administration Offices, Adult/Juvenile Probation Offices, and Juvenile Justice Courtrooms; it temporarily houses Drug Court Services Department as well. The center served as a holding facility for up to twenty five juveniles awaiting detention hearings until 2003. The Juvenile Offices of the District Attorney and Public Defender were once housed there as well. Currently, the center is also used for Narcotic Anonymous lunch time meetings.

Opened in 1936, the courthouse is one of the bay area's

most conspicuous products of the U.S. Public Works Ad-

ministration, a New Deal agency. The courthouse is a

successful example of the combination of classical and Art Deco architecture sometimes called "PWA Modern;" a style favored for public buildings in the 1930s and 1940s.