A sobering center would be a voluntary recovery option, which means patients can come and go. They can stay for just a few hours or up to 23.

The sobering center has reduced that number significantly: From June 2013 to June 2014, Houston police booked just shy of 2,500 people on public intoxication, according to sobering center numbers ...

City officials plan to open a "sobering center" at the Star of Hope Mission downtown later this year. It would be an 84-bed facility that would allow people whose only offense is being drunk to ...

Starting today, a new responder will be tied into 911 dispatch: the Sobering Urgent Response Van, or SURV for short.

The sobering center is meant to be a permanent location and the county is hoping to purchase a building or sign a long-term lease for it. "The county needs to provide both those services.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin’s Sobering Center will be converted into a quarantine shelter for the homeless, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, county commissioners unanimously approved the change.

The director of the city’s future sobriety center — a building where Austin police officers will be able to bring intoxicated people instead of taking them to jail or a hospital — was ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin’s Sobering Center has only been open for six months, and for the next several days it will be put to the test with South By Southwest. The center is an alternative to ...

Dubbed simply the Sobering Center, the facility at 150 N. Chenevert, east of downtown in the shadows of U.S. 59, should open in 2-3 weeks, said center director Leonard Kincaid.