Effort to regulate DUI checkpoints
A Santa Rosa assemblyman is pushing a bill that would set rules for how police run DUI/license checkpoints, particularly targeting the impoundment of vehicles and being more specific about where the checkpoints will be. But the bill is generating some waves in the state’s law enforcement community. Assemblyman Michael Allen, a Democrat, said he was approached by social action committees from local churches about the fear Latinos have at the checkpoints and the possible impoundment of their cars for not… Read More »