January 26, 2011, 12:05 AM
Oakland is now abstaining from impounding unlicensed drivers’ cars – and from the hundreds of thousands of dollars the controversial seizures generate a year. Without fanfare, the Oakland Police Department revised its impound policy late last year so that motorists caught driving...
+ read more
December 13, 2010, 12:05 AM
The San Jose Police Department last week joined a small, but growing, list of law enforcement agencies moving to change their policies to avoid impounding unlicensed drivers’ cars for a month. California law allows police to seize cars driven by motorists with a suspended or revoked...
+ read more
February 18, 2010, 12:03 AM
Ryan Gabrielson's story on drunk driving checkpoints, which was distributed by California Watch, has generated a lot of heat – and conflicting emotions. On the one hand, the story has evoked angry comments that using DUI checkpoints to confiscate vehicles driven by unlicensed...
+ read more
February 13, 2010, 5:53 PM
Local governments received grants for drunken driving enforcement, which pay police officer overtime at sobriety checkpoints. The funds come from money the U.S. Department of Transportation provides to the state for roadway safety. The grants detailed below pay for checkpoints year-round. You can...
+ read more
February 13, 2010, 5:47 PM
Law enforcement agencies are more likely to seize cars from sober, unlicensed drivers than take drunks off the road at the state's sobriety checkpoints, investigation finds.
+ read more
February 13, 2010, 5:46 PM
Reporter Ryan Gabrielson explains explains the process of getting to the truth of sobriety checkpoints.
+ read more
February 13, 2010, 5:45 PM
Find out what cities are impounding cars at sobriety checkpoints the most, according to data collected by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley.
+ read more
February 13, 2010, 5:44 PM
Sobriety checkpoints are generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue for California law enforcement agencies, cities and counties. Police are far more likely to impound vehicles from unlicensed drivers than arrest a driver for a DUI. The Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley has been...
+ read more
February 13, 2010, 5:42 PM
Local governments received $5.2 million in grants for police overtime at sobriety checkpoints during fiscal year 2008-09 through a California Office of Traffic Safety program administered by the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center. The funds come from money the U.S....
+ read more
February 13, 2010, 5:30 PM
Los puntos de control de sobriedad en California se están convirtiendo cada vez más en operaciones rentables para los departamentos de policía locales que tienen una probabilidad mucho mayor de confiscar automóviles de conductores sin licencia que de atrapar a conductores ebrios.
+ read more
