Public Hearing Ignition Interlock Devices Joint Assembly Standing Committee on Transportation, Assembly Standing Committee on Codes, and Assembly Standing Committee on Alcohol and Drug Abuse

• NCJ Number: 114197
• Author(s): E B Wutzer
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 7 pages
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Legislative Hearing/Committee Report
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Testimony before New York State legislative committees by the State Director of the Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives presents the division's recommendations on a bill to provide ignition interlock devices on the vehicles of persons convicted of drunk driving.

Abstract

The legislation would require ignition interlock devices for persons given probation for drunk driving. The Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives recommends that this condition only be imposed on probationers convicted of repeat or multiple drunk driving offenses or who refuse a breathalyzer test. The division also proposes that the bill provide for imposing ignition interlock devices on the vehicles of existing drunk-driving probationers who have violated certain probation conditions. Other suggestions include a pilot program for four counties, the use of devices that do not tolerate any alcohol consumption, probationers' bearing the cost of renting the devices, and making the circumvention or misuse of the device a probation violation. Recommendations also advocate the use of the device on employer vehicles driven by the probationer and provision for appropriations for the additional costs incurred by probation departments in implementing the legislation.