enforcement and public outreach, tremendous media support for DUI enforcement efforts, mock DUI crashes in schools, aggressive DUI sentencing matrix (aggressive sanctions, interlock restriction, alcohol restriction), USAAV Coordinating Council (includes defense council, judges, MADD, politicians, etc.) that highly influences legislation, 24/7 Pilot Program for repeat offenders, and a wrong‐way driver statute. An emerging issue in Utah is the increase of drug related fatal crashes as medical marijuana was just passed on the ballot. In addition, Colonel Rapich reported that Utah was the first state to pass .05 legislation, which goes into effect at midnight on December 30, 2018. Colonel Dereck Stewart, Tennessee Highway Patrol provided an administrator’s perspective on impaired driving enforcement in which he has seen a paradigm shift. They first identified the problem by looking at the data and realizing they were not doing the things that save lives. Troopers didn’t know how many people died on their roadways. They elevated the issue to the Governor’s office and developed a public safety sub‐cabinet group, which had to report out on traffic fatalities. Enhanced data led to accountability, trainings, choosing trooper shifts based on DUI arrests, identifying when troopers were needed on the road to make arrests, and trooper recognition and incentives all helped move this paradigm shift. Results from this culture of change included an increased interest in enforcement, increased DUI arrests by 150%, decreased alcohol‐related fatalities by 15.3%, and Troopers motivated by seeing the fruits of their labor. MADD Meeting – MADD Staff and National Board members invited 31 Summit attendees to a separate dinner meeting, funded outside of the NHTSA grant, following the first day of the National Law Enforcement Impaired Driving Summit, representing a cross‐section of the overall Summit attendance based on expertise, associations, and partnership with MADD, for further discussion about how MADD can better collaborate with Law Enforcement and to invite ideas around a newly developing Law Enforcement Sub‐Committee within MADD’s National Board of Directors. The purpose of this sub‐ committee will be to extract timely information from law enforcement in order to tell MADD what law enforcement needs from it so MADD’s Board of Directors may make decisions accordingly; as well, this sub‐committee will provide for better law enforcement representation on MADD’s Board. Major issues and strategies discussed in this meeting are attached to this report as they support the overall goal of the Summit (see Appendix E). Wednesday, November 14, 2018 MADD Mission Moment ‐ Sergeant Don Egdorf, Houston Police Department encouraged attendees that you do not have to be a Chief to be a leader. His leadership is evident in the Houston Police Department through his DUI enforcement efforts. He challenged Summit attendees to do more training, get the department (Chiefs) more involved, recognize officers, purchase new equipment/tools, find ways to make the process easier, involve DWI officers in training others, provide education and awareness, and visiting legislators and making the issue personal for them. The issue is personal for Sergeant Egdorf, whose father (also law enforcement) was struck and injured by a drunk driver, and who has himself survived five drunk driving crashes while working to keep our roads safe. NHTSA/Joplin Project: Building Community Support for Impaired Driving Enforcement ‐ Jennifer Davidson, NHTSA Highway Safety Specialist, shared about NHTSA’s mission and the FARS data being discussed in the Summit. She invited Chief Matt Stewart, Joplin Police Department, to share about the
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