National Interlock News
Smart Start continues to set the standard in ignition interlock technology. Smart Start is featured in the following link, and again below in this issue of Technology Today. Smart Start offers the newest, most advanced ignition interlock
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Hawaii looks to have passed life saving ignition interlock legislation. Lt. Governor Duke Aiona signed their legislation into law last Monday. The new law will allow convicted DUI offenders to get back behind the wheel, with the only restriction
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Well, as many have made a point of license suspensions simply do not work. A conservative estimate from MADD is that 75% of people under a license suspension continue to drive. MADD offers up a solution to this problem. They encourage
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South Dakota woman arrested after blowing a .708, nearly nine times the legal limit of .08 on December 1st. She was then arrested again this Monday for second offense. Both arrests were in stolen vehicles. To see a full version of this
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Smart Start of California makes the news after their state passes a pilot first time offender bill. Below is a video of the Smart Start 20/20 device in action. The 20/20 device makes it possible to capture a picture of the person taking
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50 year old Reno Nevada man has been arrested for 3 DUI’s in a seventeen day period. It would be interesting to know if this man was driving the same vehicle in all three traffic stops. Another case where getting an ignition interlock device
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Smart Start Inc. has release their new website. They have done a stunning revamp of their old site and I would say it was well worth it. Check out their site, it is full of valuable information. Smart Start provides the best in ignition interlock
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Lincoln Nebraska police arrest a 12 year old boy for a DUI after colliding with a fence a stop sign and a parked car. He apparently had a BAC of .14, nearly twice the legal drinking limit for an adult over 21. This is not his
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A professor at Duke has been studying the effectiveness of ignition interlocks. Below is an except from a story about this study. “Duke professor Philip Cook and a collaborator write in the New York Times that while ignition-interlock devices for
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North Carolina looks to add to the ever growing list of states requiring Ignition Interlock for 1st time DUI offenders. For a full article on why a Smart Start Ignition Interlock device may be required to be on the vehicles of every 1st time DUI
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Sarah Longwell, who is the managing director for American Beverage Institute, was in the Ohio Statehouse last week. She seems to pop up just about anywhere ignition interlock laws are in the works lately. Ms. Longwell is obviously out fighting
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Tony Fulton, Nebraska State Senator, and Sarah Longwell, ABI, were both guests on Fox New's show Fox and Friends. As usual Ms. Longwell argued the point that DUI offenders should not have interlock devices if they were just out having beers at a
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"The Nebraska Office of Highway Safety recently announced that Gage County will participate in the national DUI “You Drink and Drive, You Lose” campaign." Full story here. Technorati Tags: Nebraska DUI, Gage County Nebraska, Smart Start of Nebraska,
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On December 1st I posted about the Wet Lab ignition interlock demonstration. The demonstration went very well thanks to the incredibly hard work of Russ Zeeb of the Sarpy County Sheriff's Department. Others that made it possible were Fire
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I guess when you make a living drawing the blood of suspected DUI offender's you occasionally ponder the idea....."am I missing out by not driving drunk?". Well here is a story of one individual that just had to find out. On the way to the
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