OKLAHOMA
4.5 4.
STATE SNAPSHOT
• Add compliance-based removal to the all-offender ignition interlock law WAYS TO IMPROVE
In 2011, Oklahoma enacted an all-offender law, which has helped reduce drunk driving deaths by 33 percent. In 2019, lawmakers enacted legislation fine-tuning this law to ensure that all first-time offenders are utilizing this lifesaving device.
OREGON
4.5 2.
• Legalize sobriety checkpoints and ensure they are conducted at least monthly • Enact a law making child endangerment a felony • Expedite warrants when a suspected drunk driver refuses an alcohol test • Require an ignition interlock or criminalize refusing an alcohol test
Oregon passed a mandatory interlock law in 2007 and closed a loophole in 2011 to require ignition interlocks in DUI diversion agreements - covering about half of all DUI offenders.
PENNSYLVANIA
4.5 2.
• Pass an all-offender ignition interlock law • Enact an administrative license revocation law • Enact a law making child endangerment a felony • Require interlocks in all ARD plea agreements or reductions in drunk driving charges.
Pennsylvania passed a law in 2016 that requires ignition interlocks for all drunk drivers with a blood alcohol concentration of .10 and above. MADD calls on lawmakers to enact an all-offender ignition interlock law or at the very least ensure that any first-time offender granted a plea deal, called ARD in the state, must also use an interlock for six months.
RHODE ISLAND
4.5 1.
• Legalize sobriety checkpoints and ensure they are conducted at least monthly • Enact an administrative license revocation law • Enact a law making child endangerment a felony • Expedite warrants for suspected drunk drivers who refuse an alcohol test • Require ignition interlocks or criminalize refusing an alcohol test
Rhode Island became the 28th state to pass an all-offender ignition interlock law in 2016.
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