Petaluma police will have their laser speed guns out Friday in an effort to get drivers to drive at safe speeds. The five officers will target drivers on the city's main streets from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., focusing on roads with a high frequently of speed-related collisions, Police Sgt. [...]
NOTE TO READERS: This story was updated at 12:30 p.m. after Petaluma police reported a motorcyclist had been ticketed. Initially, police said no motorcyclists were cited. ------------------ Petaluma police on Monday held an all-day operation targeting motorcycle safety and handed out 51 tickets -- but only one to a motorcyclist. [...]
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 [...]
We've received a few emails lately from readers asking why they're seeing Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park and Petaluma police stopping motorists along Highway 101 from Windsor north of Cloverdale. For example, JD wrote in: "I am a courier for a pharmacy and have seen Santa Rosa police squad cars pulling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Police across Sonoma County are stepping up their enforcement on drunken drivers this Memorial Day weekend. Tonight, the CHP will hold a DUI checkpoint, but the time and location of it hasn't been disclosed. Another DUI checkpoint will be held Saturday night by the Avoid the 13 Sonoma County DUI [...]
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, [...]
The in thing for pedestrians seems to be so engaged in texting that they don't pay attention to traffic as they cross streets. Or they could be on their cellphones. Or they're listening to their iPods. If they were driving a car, they could face fines costing hundreds of dollars [...]