Santa Rosa police plan a DUI/license checkpoint Friday night. The location isn't being disclosed by police, but it will be 6 p.m. to midnight, weather permitting. Police Sgt. Lance Badger said in a statement that checkpoints are a proven tool in reducing the number of people killed and injured in [...]
A pet peeve of many Road Warrior readers is speeding in the Highway 101 construction zone from Rohnert Park to Petaluma. CHP officers are on it. Lately in the evening, one or two officers have been standing along the shoulder of southbound 101 -- behind K-rails -- checking drivers' speeds [...]
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 [...]
Going out drinking tonight? Maybe just a few glasses of wine over dinner? Beware. Sonoma County's Avoid the 13 anti-DUI task force will be out in force Friday night looking for DUI suspects. The patrols involving 25 officers from 13 of the county's police agencies will start a bit after [...]
Sonoma County's anti-DUI task force is launching its annual, winter holiday crackdown with a DUI checkpoint planned for this weekend. The Avoid the 13 task force also will send out teams of police officers on patrols specifically looking for DUI suspects, conducting probation and parole checks of those convicted of [...]
With a $235,370 state grant in hand, Santa Rosa police are launching a year-long program of special traffic enforcement. Since the grant from the state Office of Traffic Safety was issued last month, officers participating in the program already have had three operations targeting speeders; intersection violations, such as right-of-way [...]
Sonoma County's anti-DUI campaign will continue after the state awarded a $300,000 grant for the Avoid the 13 task force. The task force, which includes all police agencies in the county and is coordinated by Petaluma police, had a three-year grant of $659,000 that ended Sept. 30. The money pays [...]
Extra officers will be on the roads this Halloween weekend looking for DUI suspects as part of a Sonoma County-wide crackdown. Petaluma Police Sgt. Ken Savano, who coordinates the county's anti-DUI Avoid the 13 task force, said all police agencies will beef up patrols with officers assigned to specifically look [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]