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Petaluma speed crackdown nets 45 tickets

A crackdown Friday on unsafe speed in Petaluma resulted in 45 tickets being handed out by police. Five officers from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. watched for violators on Old Redwood Highway, Petaluma Boulevard near Highway 101, East Washington Street near Sutter Street, Lakeville Highway at Marina Drive and Lakeville [...]

By | January 6th, 2012|0 Comments

Speed crackdown Friday in Petaluma

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. [...]

By | January 5th, 2012|0 Comments

DUI crackdown getting under way in Sonoma County

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 [...]

By | December 16th, 2011|0 Comments

Motorcycle crackdown: 51 tickets, but only 1 to a motorcyclist

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. [...]

By | November 16th, 2011|28 Comments

Anti-DUI task force gets $300,000

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 [...]

By | November 3rd, 2011|12 Comments

DUI crackdown this Halloween weekend

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 [...]

By | October 28th, 2011|7 Comments

Santa Rosa DUI checkpoint

The first indication of Friday night's DUI/license checkpoint in Santa Rosa were the half dozen or so protesters holding reflective signs saying "RETEN" in Spanish for checkpoint. But before drivers knew it, they were being funneled amid flashing police lights into one lane on eastbound Fourth Street in [...]

By | September 2nd, 2011|39 Comments

Meet county’s anti-DUI boss

Ken Savano doesn’t mind if you’re out on the town and have a drink or so. But just be sure you’re not driving afterward when you shouldn’t be because if you are, Savano is hoping you’ll wind up arrested and in jail. “Many people say, ‘I’m fine. I’m OK,’ but [...]

By | August 16th, 2011|12 Comments

DUI checkpoints, crackdown this weekend

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 [...]

By | May 27th, 2011|6 Comments

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, [...]

By | May 23rd, 2011|52 Comments