April 30, 2017 • CELL PHONE,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DRIVER EDUCATION,
Driver's License,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MINNESOTA,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
SAFETY,
TEXTING Distracted driving of any kind can be instantly dangerous. Each April the federal and state governments conduct a public awareness campaign on the dangers of distracted driving that bombards motorists with media messages which leads to increased command-and-control enforcement. There can be many different distractions for drivers but among the most controversial is the use […]
April 23, 2017 • BLACK BOX,
CELL PHONE,
DUI,
EDR,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
INSURANCE,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
PRIVACY,
SAFETY,
Technology Earlier this month, the Florida Appeals Court in a 2-1 decision found in the 2013 Palm Beach County DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide case involving Charles Worsham Jr that the Fourth Amendment affords an expectation of privacy for vehicle electronic data recorders (EDRs), aka black boxes. Similar to an airplane black box, a vehicle’s EDR […]
A member from North Carolina recently was convicted of a DUI. His story is all too familiar: A 40-year safe driving record with no tickets, lost his job because of the DUI, dealing with the cost/hassle of an ignition interlock on his car, restricted to work-related driving and, after losing auto insurance coverage, forced into a […]
March 5, 2017 • ACLU,
ALASKA,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE,
INSURANCE,
IOWA,
MADD,
MONTANA,
NEWSLETTER,
NORTH DAKOTA,
SOUTH DAKOTA,
WYOMING Iowa lawmakers introduced two bills last month that would require motorists who are arrested or convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) to undergo a twice-daily in-person sobriety testing. Those who pass can go about their day. Those who don’t go straight to jail. The proposed 24/7 sobriety bills are aimed at repeat […]
February 26, 2017 • ALPR,
CELL PHONE,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
GPS TRACKING,
IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE,
MINNESOTA,
NEWSLETTER,
PRIVACY If you are one of 11,000 convicted drunk drivers in Minnesota, your car whereabouts are currently known through GPS tracking. Apparently, Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials had implemented a GPS location-tracking for interlock ignition systems without the backing of the state legislature. Representative Peggy Scott (R-Andover) says that when the legislature passed the interlock […]
