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 sort by clicking on any category header below.
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 able to determine how often police officers are arresting people for a DUI and how often they are impounding cars.
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. Department of Transportation provides to the state for roadway safety. The grants detailed below primarily pay for checkpoints scheduled during holiday periods, including the
winter holidays, as well as Labor Day and the weekend of the Super Bowl.
