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2 DUI/license checkpoints this weekend

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 [...]

By | December 30th, 2011|0 Comments

Brown vetoes tougher DUI checkpoint rules

Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have set stricter rules for police in operating DUI checkpoints, including giving two hours notice of a checkpoint’s specific location. The bill, AB1389, by Assemblyman Michael Allen, D-Santa Rosa, would have set uniform standards for how DUI checkpoints operate across the [...]

By | October 10th, 2011|14 Comments

Unlicensed drivers get break

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 [...]

By | October 10th, 2011|56 Comments

Publicizing DUI checkpoints or not

A Santa Rosa assemblyman is generating a lot of controversy over his bill that would set uniform rules for police statewide in operating DUI checkpoints and that would require police to publicize the specific location of a checkpoint at least two hours in advance. A story in Monday's Press Democrat [...]

By | September 20th, 2011|56 Comments

DUI checkpoints net 0 DUIs

Two DUI/license checkpoints Friday night in Petaluma screened 987 drivers, but police didn't find any suspected DUIs. But Petaluma police said they did arrest three drivers on suspicion of driving without a license, and two others on suspicion of driving on a suspended license. One of those two also was [...]

By | September 18th, 2011|15 Comments

DUI checkpoints Friday in Petaluma

Petaluma police on Friday night will hold two DUI/license checkpoints. The the first one will start a 6 p.m. and then at a point during the night it will be shut down and moved to the second location, which will run until 2 a.m. Saturday. Neither location was being revealed [...]

By | September 15th, 2011|13 Comments

Police may face stricter rules for DUI checkpoints

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 [...]

By | September 14th, 2011|29 Comments

State Senate votes to limit car impounds

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 [...]

By | August 31st, 2011|33 Comments

Allen’s car-impoundment legislation switch

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 [...]

By | August 23rd, 2011|16 Comments

What your legislators are driving

The North Coast's state legislators will lose their state-owned cars in December, but until then, here's what they're driving, according to Legislature records: --State Sen. Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, drives a used 2010 Toyota Highlander Hybrid that cost the state $39,458.85 new. She pays a monthly lease fee of $191.02 [...]

By | June 15th, 2011|9 Comments