Santa Rosa lawmaker seeks to regulate DUI checkpoints
Santa Rosa lawmaker seeks to regulate DUI checkpoints
Assemblyman Michael Allen, D-Santa Rosa, said cities and police have strayed from the original mission of checkpoints, increasingly using them to seize vehicles. Impoundments increased 53 percent statewide between 2007 and 2009, according to his bill, which says that in many cities, the ratio of impoundments to DUI arrests is 20 to 1.
Published May 24, 2011.
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