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"Car breath tests for 1st-time DUI offenders?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article from my local Columbus Dispatch.  As a few excerpt show, this short piece appeals to my affinity for technocorrections, for data-driven sentencing reforms, for alternatives to incarceration and for getting tougher on drunk driving: Some Ohio lawmakers and Mothers Against Drunk Driving want the state to require anyone convicted of a drunken-driving offense to blow into an alcohol tester before his or her car can start -- the first step, opponents say, in requiring all drivers to submit to such a test. MADD's national president, Laura Dean-Mooney, testified at the Ohio Statehouse yesterday in favor of a bill that would require ignition-interlock devices for first-time DUI offenders. She said the 10 states that have such laws have had significant decreases in the number of drunken-driving accidents and deaths...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).