San Diego County police departments and other California law enforcement agencies will have new limitations on towing unlicensed drivers’ vehicles when they conduct drunk driving checkpoints starting on January 1st, 2012. AB-353, which was sponsored by Assemblymen Gibert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, and Michael Allen, D-Santa Rosa, was signed into law…
Pacific Beach has hosted a drunk driving checkpoint during the July 4th weekend for the past eight years. However, the San Diego Police Department decided not to have one this year. The Pacific Beach residents are outraged by this because not only is San Diego the city with the most…
Del Mar horseracing season kicked off on July 20th, and thousands of San Diegans came out to the track to bet on the thoroughbreds and have a few cocktails. San Diego and Oceanside Police Departments, along with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, stopped 349 motorists near the track between…
A Vista judge denied the motion to exclude evidence against two men who were passing through a drunk driving checkpoint and refused to unroll their window, which prompted an Escondido officer to break his window and make an arrest for resisting an officer. The North County Times reported that Angel…
San Diego and other California counties have been making millions of dollars off vehicle impounds at drunk driving checkpoints, according to 10news.com. In a recent audit, a discrepancy was found between the number of cars that are impounded and the number of drivers arrested for being under the influence. Most…
San Diego law enforcement agencies have been racking up statistics at DUI checkpoints, and it is not on arresting drunk drivers, rather impounding cars, according to 10news.com. And even more surprising, most of those impounds are happening to sober drivers. The roadblocks have been a revenue source of millions of…
Starting this Monday, the Costa Mesa Police Department will cease announcing the locations of their drunk driving checkpoints, according to dailypilot.com. Under the old policy the locations and times were announced. “Those that listen or read about our checkpoints can plan to steer clear of the area with little fear…
Oceanside Police Department scheduled a drunk driving checkpoint that will be conducted on Friday, June 10th, from 8:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. in the City of Oceanside. The exact location has not been announced. This DUI checkpoint will be conducted just two weeks after the Memorial Day weekend where law…
DUI checkpoints have been publically announced on apps available for Apple, Google, and RIM (Blackberry) cell phones. In a prior drunk driving blog posting, we announced that some U.S. Senators and State Attorney Generals have asked these companies to stop publishing this information to the public. While Google and RIM’s…
Escondido Police conducted a sobriety checkpoint in February 2011. According to 10news.com, one of the drivers passing through, Angel Navarrete, and his passenger, Daniel Alfaro, challeged the officers’ reason for the detention and videotaped the outcome. After not complying with the officers’ request to roll down his window and show…