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Tarrant County's Felony Alcohol Intervention Project (FAIP)

By Shawn Matlock

Tarrant County implemented the Felony Alcohol Intervention Project, or FAIP, in 2007. The mission statement sums it up pretty well: To capitalize on the trauma and consequences of an arrest by early intervention in the alcoholic's course of conduct. From the outset, I will admit that I don't know that much about this program. My practice generally doesn't include too many felony DWI cases, for whatever reason. However, felony level DWIs (which require at least two prior DWI convictions for the enhancement under Section 49.09, or a prior conviction for Intoxication Manslaughter), are fundamentally different that first time, or even second time DWIs. The idea with felony DWIs is that the person has a drinking problem as opposed to simply having made a bad choice...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).