Posted on 09/23/2006 4:22:28 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Repeat drunken drivers in Sacramento County may find themselves wearing some unfashionable new jewelry -- a high-tech ankle bracelet that can tell if they've been drinking.
Sacramento Superior Court officials and the county District Attorney's office will explore requiring some drunken drivers to wear electronic devices called SCRAM -- Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitors.
The half-pound ankle bracelet -- now being tried in several California counties and other states -- detects alcohol in the person's perspiration. The results can be monitored daily via computer by court representatives.
The ankle device checks hourly for traces of alcohol, and stores data throughout the day, according to the device manufacturer, Alcohol Monitoring Systems Inc. of Colorado.
Once a day, the person wearing the device is required to be near a modem at home so results can be transmitted to a secure computer system monitored by the manufacturer.
The devices often are used on people who have been convicted of drunken driving, usually for at least a second time, and who are undergoing alcohol-abuse treatment and have been ordered not to drink.
People convicted of drunken driving in California typically have their license suspended, but the state grants some people restricted licenses so they can drive to work.
Although highway safety researchers say there have been no studies on the bracelet's ability to reduce recidivism, the device has been drawing interest around the country.
In California, Assembly Bill 1832 -- now on the governor's desk for his review -- urges counties to consider the bracelet ...
The bill's author, Assemblyman Rudy Bermudez, D-Norwalk, says the bracelet sounds like a good way to put the clamps on people who don't have the "moral fiber" to resist drinking unless they know they'll be caught and put back in jail.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Maybe they should remove half of the drunks liver
so if the drunk drinks again they will be causing their own death.
I think I'd leave California before my government ever attached an electronic leash to me.
And why are we worried about "The Axis of Evil"?
We live in North Korea already.
"Must...not...think..about...boos."
Repeat DWI offenders are encouraged to leave the state.
"I am not wearing this bracelet! Furthermore, I am just taking sleep medication and vitamins! Now - I gotta go vote."
And all freedom loving Americans too. ;-)
Your tagtine says it all. Fewer true Conservatives on FR every day.
And what would happen if I wrap an adhesive tape on my skin under the ankle bracelet, to prevent, or better, limit [incomplete wrapping] its contact with skin perspiration? One could tape the bracelet all over, but that would be tampering with the bracelet. Tampering with one's own skin is another matter.
could be but could also be the thing that would bring the alcoholic to a program and health.
You think death is a reasonable way to deal with someone convicted of drunken driving or other alcohol related offenses?
Everyone has a different definition of "true conservative". What's yours?
Maybe we'll all get together some day! In a phone booth.
I look more to the people who founded the modern movement, not those that co-opted it for themselves.
You've just got to believe that this is one of those acronymns they made up first and then fooled around until they found words with the right initials to fit.
Drinking itself is not a crime; driving drunk is hard to do while wearing a modem; a guy just might as well take to his bed.
One doesn't own one's own skin in the post freedom society.
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