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This week the digital open house looks at Traffic Safety and Family Court Orders of Protection as well as the following issues.
Each year the Sheriff’s office applies and receives a grant from the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee. Funds from this grant are used to staff traffic safety details which are set with the states targeted enforcement periods.
The periods include the following:
- April-Distracted Driving (cell phone and texting use)
- April-Operation Safe Stop, (enforcement of passing a stopped school bus laws)
- May-Click-it or Ticket, (seatbelt/child safety seat enforcement )
- July-August- Aggressive Driving (speeding, traffic light, stop sign, following too close)
- Child Passenger Safety (PTS)
The Sheriff’s Office hosts a child passenger seat fitting station on the first Saturday of each month. At these fitting station parents or caregivers can have their child seats inspected and installed properly.
The Sheriff’s Office aggressively enforces the drunk and drugged driving laws. Officers are patrolling each night in search of erratic operation of vehicles. The Sheriff’s Office also provides a mobile DWI Enforcement and processing unit.
The Police Division is also responsible for serving orders of protection and related legal process of the Family Court. In any given year, the officers serve hundreds of orders issued by the court. Frequently, execution of these orders involves the seizure of firearms, which must be inventoried and safeguarded.
Orders issued by the Family Court have increased over the last five years and now average around 500 requests for service a year. The increase is most likely attributable to the changes made by Family Court in 2008 that allowed non-related subjects to request and receive orders of protection through Family Court. Prior to 2008 these subjects would have to make their request through a local justice court.
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