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Tight Budgets for Colorado DUI Enforcement

By Erin K

In a surprising move, Colorado?s Governor Bill Ritter plans to divert more than $1.3 million intended to fight drunken driving to help fill the state?s budget gap estimated at $318 million. A recent Denver Post article stated that the $1.3 million, which is raised by a surcharge imposed on everyone convicted of a DUI offense in Colorado, has been used to “pay overtime for cops working the ‘Heat Is On’ crackdowns on long holiday weekends.” This is particularly relevant as the recent Labor Day Weekend statistics are being tabulated and due to be released shortly. For Colorado, their planned campaign for Labor Day weekend was to be the last funded by those grants if the legislature approves Ritter’s plan, and as of Tuesday, Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).