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Appendix IV Recommendations from National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) on the role of a Hawaii County DUI Task Force From: Paul Snodgrass NHTSA (in an informal a-mail answering the question, "what is the role of county DUI task forces?" To: Gordon in Hawaii DOT and public health partners: State DUI Task Forces are made up of State government agencies and statewide organizations, like MADD and sometimes AAA, Restaurant Association, etc. They do statewide stuff, like propose legislation, do ad campaigns, etc. At the county level Task Forces its county-level folks, focusing more on local, grassroots issues. Some focus mostly on the criminal justice system ,like how well the police are doing DUI enforcement, reducing processing time and paperwork in making DUI arrests how courts track and handle cases and getting people into effective sanctions promptly license suspension vehicle impoundment alcohol treatment programs ignition interlocks jail, and all the rest. Many local task forces get into outreach and prevention type programs, like setting up designated driver programs in local bars and restaurants, working with cab companies or volunteers to get free or cheap rides home, etc. Usually local businesses are involved in various ways, to donate what they can, whether ads, posters billboards cab rides free soft drinks and snacks for designated drivers, etc. At the local task force level it often comes down to identifying specific local problems and planning solutions, e q ~ worst problem bars producing most drunk drivers Teenage hangouts for drinking Most dangerous times and locations for DUI - to locate sobriety checkpoints. Liquor stores selling to teens can be targeted by decoy/sting operations, etc. High school and middle school assembly and other programs of many kinds are implemented. Media events of many kinds are held. MADD has good experience at the State and County level creating such coalitions, and has publications about it. There are good examples like Northern (and Southern) Nevada DUI Task Forces, and about a dozen or more local ones in Arizona. Jack Champlin in our office is our injury control and public health specialist and he helped create a DUI Coalition in Contra Costa County, in his previousjob. I'll copy him in on this response. Another good contact for you to discuss community DUI task force or coalition activity would be Ms. Erin Breen, Safe Community Partnership Director, with the Southern Nevada (Las Vegas) DUI Task Force. Her phone number is (702) 89five-1780 and her a-mail address is erin@trc.unlv.edu. A local (county) DUI Task Force: There are several publications NHTSA has that might be helpful on the NHTSA website www.nhtsa.dot.gov. Look under Traffic Safety Materials, in the materials catalog under Impaired Driving. Also look in the "You Drink, You Drive, You Lose" area. One is A Guide for Building a Comprehensive Impaired Driving Campaign, a booklet I mailed you recently. Good luck and I hope this helps some. On the media campaign issue, we've found that paid advertising, carefully targeted, (like YDYDYL at 18-34 year old males) backed up by publicized, visible enforcement, like sobriety checkpoints, does work. But you have to have the enforcement, not just the ads. General deterrence theory is all based on "Increasing the perceived risk of (DUI) arrest, and swift and certain punishment." Motor Vehicle Related Crash Fatality Reduction Group - 2D04 ~