DWI Offenders Helped by Alcohol Detectors
The Buffalo News reports that DWI Offenders are less likely to re-offend when alcohol monitoring ankle bracelets are used.
Bracelets working as DWI deterrent Alcohol detectors surpassing hopes
By Patrick Lakamp NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Authorities a year ago started putting ankle bracelets on chronic drunken drivers to tell if they have had a drink.
Now the initial results are in, and the experiment has worked better than judges and anti-DWI advocates expected.
“We’ve gotten much better results than we dreamed,” said Buffalo City Judge Patrick M. Carney, who oversees the Erie County cases.
None of the 61 offenders was arrested again for drunken driving during the program’s first year in Buffalo and Niagara Falls courtrooms. Only a handful tampered with the monitoring device or were caught consuming alcohol, according to a preliminary report.
The report found that offenders:
• Tampered with the bracelets or failed to show up in court six times.
• Failed four drug tests out of 215 given.
• Fully passed unannounced breath tests during probation home visits.
• Showed up at 95 percent of 1,007 scheduled individual treatment visits and 2,420 group counseling sessions.
• Attended 3,330 support group meetings sponsored by Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous or some other group.
If you have been convicted of a DWI or DUI and get the opportunity for a fresh start, take advantage of the monitoring programs and when you are clean and sober and ready to drive again, be sure to contact Serenity Group for you SR22 Insurance Needs.
