Sonoma County's anti-DUI task force wraps up its annual winter holiday crackdown this weekend with two DUI/license checkpoints. Officers from police agencies in the county also will be out on special DUI patrols, looking for DUI suspects, searching for those with DUI warrants and conducting random DUI probation and parole [...]
Police will be prohibited from impounding cars of most unlicensed drivers stopped at DUI checkpoints under a bill signed Sunday by Gov. Jerry Brown. Under the bill, AB353, cosponsored by by Assemblymen Michael Allen, D-Santa Rosa, and Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, police can't impound the car of an unlicensed driver [...]
Local police will face stricter rules for their DUI checkpoints if a bill by Santa Rosa Assemblyman Michael Allen is signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The Assembly last week gave final approval, 48-25, to the bill, AB 1389, before sending it on to Brown. Overall, the bill would set uniform [...]
The state Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would limit the impounding of cars of unlicensed drivers at DUI checkpoints. The bill, AB 353, by Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, would prohibit police from impounding the car of an unlicensed driver who is sober if the car wasn’t used in [...]
Note: This column has been updated with comments from an aide to Assemblyman Michael Allen. Santa Rosa Assemblyman Michael Allen's legislation that would have limited police impounds of cars at DUI/license checkpoints has taken a turn in the state Senate. The impoundment provision has been dropped from Assembly Bill 1389 [...]