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Shasta County prosecutors are touting their “tougher stand” toward drunken driving as the force behind their standing as the county with the second-highest DUI conviction rates in California.

Some 96.9 percent of drivers arrested for DUI in 2006 and 2007 were convicted, according to a statement released today by the Shasta County District Attorney’s office, citing a California Department of Motor Vehicles report.

Of the state’s 58 counties, only Placer County had a higher conviction rate, with 99.2 percent of drunken driving cases resulting in convictions.

“The increased conviction rate is indicative of better investigated DUI cases by law enforcement and higher-quality prosecutions coupled with a tougher stand on DUI cases by the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office,” District Attorney Jerry Benito said in the statement.

The report also touts a 40 percent increase in DUI arrests between 2006 and 2007.

In 2006, 1,276 people were arrested. The following year, 1,796 were.

The increase in part is due to the Redding Police Department assigning two full-time patrol officers devoted entirely DUI patrols those years, as well as stepped up drunken driving enforcement efforts from other county law enforcement agencies, Benito said.

The grant that funded the two Redding police officers dried up at the start of this year.

The Assembly Public Safety Committee just approved, with bi-partisan support, a pilot program requiring those convicted of their first DUI offense to have an Ignition Interlock Device, or IID, in their cars for five months. Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D) of Los Angeles is championing the move.
"That habitual use of this device assures that they are in a condition in the future to drive sober again," said Assemblyman Feuer.
The program, paid for by grants and the offender, would be tested in five counties where DUI arrests are high: Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Alameda, and Sacramento.
A positive blow for alcohol into the breathalyzer prevents the car from starting. The American Beverage Institute fought hard to kill the bill because it takes away judicial discretion for those not too much over the legal limit.
"When it comes to speeding, for example, you don't punish somebody going five miles over the speed limit the same way you do for somebody going 30 miles over the speed limit," said Sarah Longwell, from the American Beverage Institute.
But California's own DMV concluded the IID's were not effective in reducing DUI convictions or incidents for first time offenders.
Still, there's no denying what might have happened had Assemblyman Feuer been successful in getting the ignition lock bill approved last year. The suspected drunk driver in the Adenhart crash, Andrew Thomas Gallo, already had a DUI conviction and the Orange County District Attorney says he was three times over the legal limit this time.
"If we had this law, those three young people in that car quite possibly would have been alive today. The offender would have an IID as a protection device, not so much as a penalty, but to protect him too," said Mary Klotzbach, from Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

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