In an effort to share different perspectives about what courts and treatment centers are going through during COVID-19 and how they are responding to the many challenges, we recently held a webinar on the topic. …

The Justice Speakers Institute, LLC (JSI), the preeminent criminal justice organization composed of top judges and criminal justice experts, released a position paper in February 2020, comparing the LifeSafer® Portable Alcohol Monitoring device to other…

There have been many studies which have explored the effectiveness of ignition interlock devices for DUI offenders over the last 20 years. Again and again, the research has proven that interlock devices reduce recidivism by…

In America, we’ve got our own laws and our own way of doing things. We don’t seem to listen much to outsiders, especially when they criticize us. But Utah has garnered not criticism, but praise,…

A recent essay in the Harvard Journal on Legislation has explored an idea that some people might find radical: install ignition interlocks in all vehicles to prevent drunk driving collisions. An ignition interlock, or car…

Every year America’s road safety watchdog tallies up the fatal road crashes for the previous year. Sometimes the news is, if sad, at least encouraging. This year it was disturbing. According to this year’s Fatal…

As far as impaired driving goes, we’re in the hot season. The last couple of weeks in August through Labor Day are notorious for the number of drunk drivers who get arrested – and the…

Drivers make a lot of assumptions on the road. One of them is that the other drivers will generally be acting rationally. Of course, defensive driving demands that we be on the alert for sudden…

A college student in Sacramento, Adam Wong, got to thinking about how he could prevent people from drinking and driving. He had a personal stake in the problem – some of his friends were arrested…

Washington State wants people to be less drunk when driving. Or at least, some Washington legislators do. House Bill 1874 is being debated in the state house. If passed the bill would lower the legal…