Lawmakers in Montana are obtaining ready to review a number of proposed additions to the present DUI laws. The newly proposed laws would make it possible to hand out more severe punishments for DUI offenders and make it simpler for the courts to convict those accused of DUI. Under the newly proposed laws it would [...]
More than fifteen percent of inmates booked into Marshall Jail in 2010 where there since of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. This is the number one offense for booking into the Indiana jail and is nearly five percent higher than the second most committed offense. Conviction of an OWI in Indiana carries some very [...]
Despite budget cuts that limited the quantity of officers on the streets, California law enforcement agencies had been still able to make their presence felt during the holiday season. Over the course of the “Avoid” campaign, police in Contra Costa and Alameda counties participated in a number of saturation patrols and checkpoints in an effort [...]
Two men were arrested last Friday night for DUI in the city of Austin, the unusual part of the story lies in the fact that they weren’t driving a traditional vehicle. 1 of the men arrested for DUI was atop a horse and the other was riding a mule. Even though the prospect of being [...]
Utah is the safest state in the country in terms of DUI related fatalities, but law enforcement officials there look for any opportunities they get to make the streets even safer. A quite welcome donation of five thousand dollars furnished by the New Car Dealers of Utah made it possible to put additional troopers on [...]
Numerous new laws in Tennessee DUI laws will make penalties for drunk driving, and repeated and excessive drunk driving harsher. One new DUI law that has gone into effect will call for those DUI offenders who register a blood alcohol content higher than .15 percent to install and pay for an ignition interlock device if [...]
Wichita police arrested sixty four drivers for DUI from the begin of the Christmas weekend through New Year’s weekend. There were a lot more than twice as many DUI arrests recorded in 2010 as there had been throughout the exact same time period over the holidays last year. This improve in DUI activity wasn’t just [...]
Paradise Police, along with seven other law enforcement agencies that make up the Steer clear of the Eight DUI patrol, netted a lot more than ninety arrests between Christmas and New Year. The Avoid the Eight program, now in its fifth year, increases officer presence on the streets in checkpoints and saturation patrols. The program [...]
Law enforcement officials from the state of Arizona recorded more than 3500 DUI arrests during the period between Thanksgiving weekend and New Year’s Day. Whilst this number may well seem astounding, it is a very huge improvement over the nearly 4700 DUI arrests recorded throughout the same time period in 2009. Officials attribute at least [...]
Law enforcement officers in Alameda County have used portable, battery operated video cameras to aid compile extra evidence in more than 200 DUI arrests since the middle of December. Officers say that the cameras, donated to the force by the Seattle manufacturer, offer very valuable evidence of a driver’s level of intoxication to present to [...]