The Ohio Senate, last Thursday, passed a bill increasing penalties for repeat DUI drivers, including alcohol-level monitoring bracelets, and having the potential for still more restrictions such as ignition locks, once it gets thru the House of Representatives, according to the Enquirer.
Senate Bill 17 has already been amended to include a public-accessible database of all DUI offenders having five or more convictions. According to the Department of Public Safety and the Enquirer, there have been almost 36,000 drivers with five or more DUI convictions in Ohio since 1973, about 10% from Cincinnati and southwest Ohio.
In 2005 there were 505 alcohol-related traffic deaths in Ohio, about the same number recorded five years earlier in 2000 (562 deaths). Kentucky had 313 and Indiana, 320, deaths in 2005, compared to 280 and 303, respectively, in 2000. (See stats compiled by Mothers Against Drunk Driving)
Also part of the bill would be provisions for mandatory blood-alcohol tests for drivers with two or more drug/alcohol convictions, holding police officers immune from any civil or criminal liability in the use of “any reasonable means necessary” to administer those tests.
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