Advocates has sent a letter to leaders of the California Senate Committee on Public Safety in support of advancing Assembly Bill (AB) 366 to make permanent the ignition interlock device (IID) pilot program and upgrade the law to require the use of IIDs by all convicted drunk drivers, including first time offenders.
Under current law, a court may require an IID for a first-time offender. Information from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) on the effectiveness of IIDs notes that IIDs prevented over 28,000 attempts to drive drunk in California in 2020 alone. Expanding the law to include all first time offenders would improve the effectiveness of the IID program and help prevent drunk driving.
Read the full letter here.