DUI
Kansas Considers Ignition Interlocks for All DUI Offenders
Proposed legislation would penalize even first offenders of KS DUI.
The state legislature has announced House Bill 2315 that will require all motorists convicted of driving under the influence in Kansas to install an ignition interlock device in their vehicle. Ignition interlocks act as mini-breathalyzers, measuring a driver’s blood alcohol content before a vehicle can be started. If the BAC exceeds a certain limit the ignition is disabled.
Current Kansas DUI law requires the devices for repeat drunk driving offenders. The new law will require them for even first offenders. Proponents say the approach will reduce DUI related accidents, citing reported lower death rates in states that have enacted similar laws. Opponents of the law, like the American Beverage Institute, say that the law makes no distinction between the social drinker who had one sip beyond the legal limit for intoxication and the average chronic drunk driver who usually has a BAC twice the legal limit. The ABI says the focus should be on identifying and treating the hard-core alcohol abusers who are repeat drunk driving offenders.
An ignition interlock device costs about a $1000 a year to install and maintain. The cost is paid for by the motorist.
The measure is expected to be passed out of committee for consideration by the full Kansas House. It is one of several Kansas DUI measures being considered by the legislature.
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Monday, March 09, 2009
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House Bill 2315
Posted by
D. M.
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2009-04-01 08:13
The ABI needs to realize that "one sip" over the legal limit is still dangerous! It is not just "chronic" drunks that kill people!! This is good legislation and needs to be passed. We deserve to be as safe as possible on the public roadways.
Posted by
Will C
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2009-04-18 20:36
I completely Disagree with this legislation. I haven't even so much as had a speeding ticket in over five years. I got a DUI in may of 08. My first and last. So i lost my license for a year and now I am going to have to put this thing in my car.. Pay a monthly fee on it. It has affected my job as well as other aspects of my life. I cant work now because i need a drivers license to be able to. Freaking criminals can get out of prison because of good behavior yet I cant even get a temporary license so that i can live. I made a bad choice one night. So yes i broke the laws and deserve to be punished. But there really needs to a change in what that punishment is. When you start affecting someones right to make a living you need reevaluate the punishment.
Posted by
D.L.
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2009-05-03 21:44
"When yo start affecting someones right to make a living you need reevaluate the punishment." This is the comment you left. If you would have killed someone while driving drunk do you not think that may have affected their right to make a living? Maybe that is why they are reevaluating the punishment. Good thought, but sometimes you have to think if you maybe are what they are trying to prevent? Think about it.
Posted by
yoseph
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2009-09-24 12:32
did YOU actually have any logical thought before you post your comment?
the man like millions of others is telling you that he is a good driver and a FIRST offense DUI was pretty much the only stain on his record!
what is all this NONSENSE about you "may" have affected somebody's life?
well the FACT is he did NOT.do you think punishments should be proportionate to "might have been crimes" rather than ACTUAL crimes?
if he left any VICTIMS so let them come out and speak or we can speak for them and let him have the appropriate punishment but if not then why should he be practically denied the right to provide for himself and his family?
the man like millions of others is telling you that he is a good driver and a FIRST offense DUI was pretty much the only stain on his record!
what is all this NONSENSE about you "may" have affected somebody's life?
well the FACT is he did NOT.do you think punishments should be proportionate to "might have been crimes" rather than ACTUAL crimes?
if he left any VICTIMS so let them come out and speak or we can speak for them and let him have the appropriate punishment but if not then why should he be practically denied the right to provide for himself and his family?
Posted by
anonymous
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2011-04-06 23:36
Great comment. I agree. There number of people getting DUIs without injury to harm to others is enormous and there is a huge cottage industry springing up with the counseling, devices etc. raking in the $$$. As a society we need to make sure people are 'taught a lession' so they don't injure anyone. But we also need to watch that we are pushing them into more financial and job stress, etc. This won't solve the problem and it could exacerbate it.
Posted by
rc
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2009-09-21 20:22
I also have made a bad mistake of dui. It has cost me a lot of jail time and money and I'm not done yet. I am a mechanic and this has affected my job and marriage because I went to help some stranded motorist that night while my wife was at a bachelorete party on a three day weekend. The cops were out doing their jobs. I didn't have an accident, I was just confronted for running my state required flashing lights. The laws have become very strict and primative. My point is that I probably saw more Mothers Againts Drunk Drivers not yield to my warning lights because they were on their cell phones. Figure that one out. Everybody please be more careful when you drive.
Posted by
Mike
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2009-09-22 13:50
Doug Green
Infowars.com
September 15, 2009
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
Our government has lost focus of their primary responsibility to serve the public’s best interest; to viciously pursue an unsustainable agenda for revenue and control through DUI /Prohibition law. Our corrupted policymakers have overtime passed legislation designed to progressively circumvent our constitution. Thus selling out the power over our free nation unto the dehumanizing “wealthy global elite” (i.e. the world’s wealthiest 5% that now control 90% of the global assets; such as the media, insurance, prison, and rehabilitation industries…as well as the non-government Department of Motor Vehicles). Some examples of the use of manipulation and fear to persuade us to give up our freedoms for “safety” are presented below:
1. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) produces the data on alcohol-related traffic fatality statistics based on accident reports listing the presence of alcohol .01+ in the driver, passenger or bystander. Furthermore, they publicly admit that this data is often misrepresented. For example, the wealthy lobbying group MADD had claimed that 14,539 people where killed by drunk drivers in 2003 (this erroneously inflated statistic was the driving factor behind lowering the BAC limit to .08 from the previous national standard of .15), But those same statistics show that less than 13,000 of those accidents involved a driver with a BAC of .01 or more…with the majority of those accidents being the fault of a driver has whose BAC was above .15. So statistically speaking, there is a better chance of being struck by lightning while standing in the rain, than being killed on the road by a drunk driver. Or to put things into a different perspective, sober drivers are to blame in over 71% of fatal traffic accidents… Meanwhile, 1.5 million people had their lives devastated by a DUI arrest in 2003.
2. Section 163 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) created incentive grants for states enacting and enforcing a qualifying .08 BAC illegal per se law…A total of $500 million has been authorized for this grant program.
3. There are also several troublesome national trends directly related to the growing injustice of DUI and Prohibition Laws. Such as social-economic ramifications of having a country that leads the world in the percentage of population incarcerated. And in spite of the FBI’s Unified Crime Report states that violent crime, property crime, and crime against person have been declining for over a decade…incarceration was the fastest growing industry last year. So basically, our government is spending billions of our tax dollars to send millions of non-criminal working class citizens to jail or into programs that time and statistics have shown to have no real positive impact whatsoever. If anything, these unconstitutional laws are a leading contributor to the destruction of our middle class families. As well as our overburdened welfare and criminal justice system.
Infowars.com
September 15, 2009
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
Our government has lost focus of their primary responsibility to serve the public’s best interest; to viciously pursue an unsustainable agenda for revenue and control through DUI /Prohibition law. Our corrupted policymakers have overtime passed legislation designed to progressively circumvent our constitution. Thus selling out the power over our free nation unto the dehumanizing “wealthy global elite” (i.e. the world’s wealthiest 5% that now control 90% of the global assets; such as the media, insurance, prison, and rehabilitation industries…as well as the non-government Department of Motor Vehicles). Some examples of the use of manipulation and fear to persuade us to give up our freedoms for “safety” are presented below:
1. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) produces the data on alcohol-related traffic fatality statistics based on accident reports listing the presence of alcohol .01+ in the driver, passenger or bystander. Furthermore, they publicly admit that this data is often misrepresented. For example, the wealthy lobbying group MADD had claimed that 14,539 people where killed by drunk drivers in 2003 (this erroneously inflated statistic was the driving factor behind lowering the BAC limit to .08 from the previous national standard of .15), But those same statistics show that less than 13,000 of those accidents involved a driver with a BAC of .01 or more…with the majority of those accidents being the fault of a driver has whose BAC was above .15. So statistically speaking, there is a better chance of being struck by lightning while standing in the rain, than being killed on the road by a drunk driver. Or to put things into a different perspective, sober drivers are to blame in over 71% of fatal traffic accidents… Meanwhile, 1.5 million people had their lives devastated by a DUI arrest in 2003.
2. Section 163 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) created incentive grants for states enacting and enforcing a qualifying .08 BAC illegal per se law…A total of $500 million has been authorized for this grant program.
3. There are also several troublesome national trends directly related to the growing injustice of DUI and Prohibition Laws. Such as social-economic ramifications of having a country that leads the world in the percentage of population incarcerated. And in spite of the FBI’s Unified Crime Report states that violent crime, property crime, and crime against person have been declining for over a decade…incarceration was the fastest growing industry last year. So basically, our government is spending billions of our tax dollars to send millions of non-criminal working class citizens to jail or into programs that time and statistics have shown to have no real positive impact whatsoever. If anything, these unconstitutional laws are a leading contributor to the destruction of our middle class families. As well as our overburdened welfare and criminal justice system.
