Raleigh DUI lawyer & sobriety checkpoints.

This Raleigh DUI lawyer thinks that modern technology may be catching up with DUI law enforcement officers with regard to sobriety checkpoints. Indeed, many GPS systems and other location tracking devices are not able to indicate when and where sobriety checkpoints have been set up. In addition, motorists can pay to receive text and/or cell phone updates on the presence of sobriety checkpoints.

Providers of such sobriety checkpoint notification services claim that notifying people of the existence of checkpoints actually helps reduce drunk driving. “If you know there’s a crackdown for DUI, then you’re most likely not going to do it,” says Jonathan Milman, co-creator of one of the DUI notification services. “Why do people put a home security sign in front of their house? It’s to stop the burglar from coming in, in the first place. That’s the purpose of DUI checkpoints. It’s to stop people from driving drunk in the first place.”

Not surprisingly, law enforcement officers have a different take on sobriety checkpoint notification systems.

“If that were to occur, it could cause someone to go ahead and drink and drive because they think they’ve got a free pass,” said Captain Paul Starks, a police officer in Maryland. “I don’t know that we’re going to ever be interested in letting people know exactly where our DUI checkpoints are,” said Starks.

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