24/7 SOBRIETY PROJECT OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL LARRY LONG
DW13* DW14* Vehicular Battery Vehicular Homicide TOTALS FY99 FY04 Convictions 4, ,958 FY99-FY04 ALL FELONY CONVICTIONS 15,290 DUI FELONIES were 32.4% of all felony convictions DUI FELONIES FY 99- FY04
OTHER FELONIES Possn. of Cont. Subst A- 17(1) Grand Theft Forgery rd Degree Burglary Aggravated Assault FY99-FY04 Convictions 3,8182,4571,193 1, FY99-FY04 Percentage 24.9%16.0%7.8%6.6% 5.4% DUI and controlled substances felonies total 57.3% 12.5% of state prison population are DUI felonies
TOTAL CLASS 1 MISDEMEANOR FILINGS Total Class 1 Misdemeanor Filings DUI 1 DUI 2 DUI % of total filings FY04 20,5428,00439% FY03 20, % FY02 19, % FY01 20, % FY00 21, %
DUI CLASS 1 MISDEMEANORS DUI 1DUI 2TOTAL% of DUI 1 with 2 nd offense FY04 Charges Convictions 6,559 5,537 1,405 1,198 8,004 6,735 18% FY03 Charges Convictions 6,700 5,517 1,262 1,105 7,962 6,622 17% FY02 Charges Convictions 5,863 4,847 1,256 1,074 7,119 5,921 18% FY01 Charges Convictions 7,001 5,770 1,359 1,146 8,360 6,916 17% FY00 Charges Convictions 7,456 6,093 1,325 1,079 8,781 7,172 15% FY00-04 Charges Convictions 33,619 27,764 6,607 5,602 40,226 33,366 17%
GOAL Defendant sobriety- 24/7 Target group- anyone arrested for DUI with prior conviction in last 10 years Perhaps anyone arrested for domestic violence
BOND CONDITIONS No alcohol No bars Breath test- 7am and 7pm If you skip or fail you go to jail
BENEFITS Mom and kids are safer Public is safer Defendant will spend less time in jail Treatment prospects improve Defendant’s employer happy ALMOST NO COST TO TAXPAYER
24/7 SOBRIETY PROJECT INDICATES PARTICIPATING 24/7 COUNTIES Last Update: 01/10/07
County/ Location of Testing Testing CountyFrequency *PercentValid %Cumulative % Bennett121.1 Brookings Brown Clay Hughes Lincoln Mellette Minnehaha Pennington Spink Tripp Union Walworth Yankton TOTAL *Includes both current and discharged participants
Age Groups/ Offenses 48% of program participants have 3 or more DUI Offenses
Number of Testing Days Comparing first test date to last test date yields an average of days of participation in the program.
Testing Results N ParticipantsTotal Number of Tests Number of Tests Shows n No Shows Excuses n No Shows n Neg Tests n Fail Tests Participants passed 165,105 (or 99.3%) of 166,222 scheduled tests.
Number of Show and Fails 680 (66.6%) never failed a test 175 (17.1%) failed only one test 100 (9.7%) failed only twice
SCRAM MONITORING
Alerts Alert Description Start Date/TimeStatusResolution Alcohol Detected 04/11/ :51 PMResolved Confirmable Action Log: Contact AMS 04/14/2006 2:02 PMConfirmable Contact AMS 04/13/2006 7:38 AMConfirmedConfirmable Contact AMS 04/12/2006 9:50 AMAppears to be low- level consumption. Awaiting return to zero to complete analysis.
HB 1072 The Committee on Judiciary at the request of the Office of the Attorney General An Act to create a statewide 24/7 sobriety program, establish the 24/7 sobriety fund, and to make an appropriation therefore. 01/09/2007First read in House H.J. 3401/10/2007Referred to House Judiciary H.J. 4402/12/2007Scheduled for committee hearing on this date 02/12/2007Judiciary Hoghoused Passed Amendment (1072ra) 02/12/2007House Judiciary Amendment (1072rb)02/12/2007Referred as Amended to House Appropriations, YEAS 12, NAYS 0. H.J /14/2007Scheduled for committee hearing on this date 02/14/2007Appropriations Do Pass Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0. H.J /15/2007House of Representatives Motion to amend Passed H.J. 555 Amendment (1072rc) 02/15/2007House of Representatives Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 70, NAYS 0. H.J /20/2007First read in Senate and referred to Senate Judiciary S.J. 575