Advocates has sent a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) requesting that he sign into law Assembly Bill (AB) 366 to extend the ignition interlock device (IID) program.
The Golden State has the second most drunk driving fatalities of any state with 1,355 people needlessly killed in 2023.
Extending the IID law, which otherwise will sunset on January 1, 2026, will save lives. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), IIDs prevented over 28,000 attempts to drive drunk in California in 2020 alone.
We also hope to work with the governor to enact an all-offender IID law in 2026.
Read the full letter here.
Prior actions in support of AB 366 include a letter to the Senate President Pro Tempore, a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee, letter to the Senate Public Safety Committee, a call to action to Assembly members, a letter to the Assembly Committee on Appropriations, a letter to the Assembly Committee on Public Safety and participation in a coalition letter.