Intoxicated Drivers Face High-tech Lockouts
from USA Today
 High-tech efforts against drunken driving are intensifying around the U.S. as more states adopt or consider laws requiring first-time offenders to equip their vehicles with devices that prevent operation by intoxicated people. Federal highway officials and safe driving advocates, noting that crash deaths involving drunken drivers have remained about 32 percent of all fatalities for the past decade, say the devices are the best way to cut the toll. State legislators are listening. More
Mentally Ill Inmates Cost $400M Year
from the Detroit News
Corrections officials say more than 12,500 of Michigan's 50,000-plus prison inmates -- 1 in 4 -- have a history of mental illness. Advocates call that shameful. Policymakers trying to get the $2 billion state corrections budget under control call it expensive. That's why Gov. Jennifer Granholm wants $3.4 million in the coming fiscal year to establish five mental health courts -- pilot projects designed to keep more mentally ill residents from flooding jails and prisons. More
California Man Challenges Court Security Search
from the Marin Independent Journal
A Novato, Calif., man was held in contempt of court for failing to appear for jury service after he refused to submit to a security screening, saying it violates his Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure. More
Retired Officers Could Register in Palm Beach County to Carry Guns Soon
from the Palm Beach Post
For a fee, retired law enforcement officers will soon be able to go to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office to obtain the certification and background checks required to carry a gun at all times and across state lines, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said Monday. More
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Students Want Chance to Defend Themselves
from CNN
Michael Flitcraft, a 23-year-old sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, has become a leading advocate for college students to carry weapons on campus. He's an organizer for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, a grass-roots organization that was formed after last year's Virginia Tech massacre that left 32 college students and professors dead. The group boasts more than 25,000 members. More
Douglas County Commissioners Content to Let Sheriff Set Staffing Levels
from the Oregon News-Review
A court decision that gives county commissioners broad control over the classification and pay scales for sheriff’s deputies should have little impact in Douglas County, officials say. Former Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel sued the Josephine County Board of Commissioners after the board denied his request to promote one of his sergeants into a lieutenant’s position. More
Opinion: Careless 'Cool Parents' Need to Take More Heat
from The Bakersfield Californian
Teens have enough opportunity to veer into troublesome situations without wrong-headed adults pointing the way. That's why the so-called "cool parent" ordinances, passed in recent years by the County of Kern and the City of Bakersfield in California, are appropriate and useful. The separate but similar ordinances allow law enforcement agencies to issue administrative citations -- civil rather than criminal summonses -- to adults who host parties where alcohol is served to minors. More
Cops Give Web Site Rating Cops a Poor Rating
from KFMB-TV
Everything seems to be rated these days, from movies to restaurants. Now there's a new web site that rates cops. RateMyCop.com lets people comment on officers from around the country, and that doesn't rate well with local enforcement. More
Mock DUI Crash Sends Message Before Jeffersonville High Prom
from the Courier-Journal
The wreck had been staged as a prom-night crash. Thankfully, it was only a demonstration. When about 400 juniors and seniors at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Ind., sat down in the bleachers at the track yesterday, they saw the wreckage from the collision -- two smashed vehicles entangled on the field below them. Blue tarps covered the windows until a 911 call was broadcast over the loudspeakers. Off came the tarps. Jeffersonville and Clark County police officers arrived, then Jeffersonville firefighters, followed by an ambulance for Osborne and Miller, a helicopter for Edwards and a hearse for the body. The driver, who had failed several sobriety tests, was hauled off to jail. More
Greenville County Begins Planning its Attack on Local Gangs
from The Greenville News
Rehabilitate gang members in "boot camp." Offer more youth sports leagues. Train park maintenance workers to identify gang symbols. Those proposals and more surfaced today when a coalition of public and nonprofit groups met to begin plotting their attack against Greenville County, S.C., youth gangs. More
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