AnonymousSource: County of Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara County Probation Department will be using a one-year, $154,950.00 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to supervise high-risk, repeat DUI offenders with suspended or revoked licenses.
Santa Barbara County Probation Department Chief Tanja Heitman stated, “The partnership with the Office of Traffic Safety provides an additional resource to the Santa Barbara County Probation Department allowing greater protection of the community.
This grant will enhance not only the safety of individuals behind the wheel, but passengers and pedestrians alike. The statistics are clear that driving under the influence has been a critical factor in many vehicle-related deaths. We are pleased to be able to continue our efforts working with high risk DUI offenders to prevent further incidents of drinking and driving.”
The grant period is from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020, and will provide funding for a dedicated Probation Officer who will focuses their efforts on those DUI offenders who present the greatest risk to the Santa Maria Valley. Case management and supervision strategies will be used to make sure offenders follow court ordered terms of their probation, including home, work and office visits, alcohol testing, and warrant service operations. In addition, funding will be used to develop “Hot Sheets” that identify repeat DUI offenders, and to work with court officials to establish probation orders for DUI offenders on probation.
This grant is aimed at reducing the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol-related collisions, as well as lower DUI recidivism rates.
“Supervision programs help make sure DUI offenders are held accountable for their actions and not putting others at risk,” OTS Director Barbara Rooney said. “Our coordinated effort with the Santa Barbara County Probation Department reduces the chances of probationers re-offending.”
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
So if you don’t believe something, no matter the source, it just must not be true? I know who you voted for in the last presidential election.
Hello, I am the County of SB responding to your question. Your taxes are going to the many services that are provided like fire and police and welfare and social work and homelessness and hospitals and dog shelters. I hope this information is useful to you. Have a great day!
I couldn’t agree more. The managers and their superiors are CONSTANTLY getting raises. On a private forum I read that in 2015 a law went until effect where they shouldn’t have been charging people to seal their juvenile records and through a PRA request they admitted that 100 people applied and they charged them. They did not reimburse not ONE person who was refunded. The PRA apparently said “ In 2015, 100 applicants paid atotal of $8,516.83. There were no refunds.” who are the real criminals? Never mind that Supervising Probation Officer Esther Trejo who got in the car with a drunk driver who was an employee with the sheriffs department. She handed him the keys to HER car and injured countless people. Government employees are the real criminals. This department needs to be audited and scrutinized for their misconduct.
You are spot on!
The tax money is going for the insane amount of Over Time aka OT in the LEO community. That’s what keeps most of them going so they can take the nice vacations, buy the expensive “toys” and do the other things we normal working stiffs only dream about.
Why does the county need external “grants” to perform basic public safety services? Where is all our tax money going if they can’t even respond to repeat drumk drivers that are killing and maiming us on roads and highways in our own county. Where is our money going, County of Santa Barbara?
So did I miss something in the article? Is the Santa Maria Valley the only place that DUI repeat offenders live? I thought County of SB was to oversee the whole county. So the rest of the citizens don’t deserve to be protected?
The money is going toward “studies” and “research” and “consultants” and “reviews” and x, y, and z. Not one accident will be prevented by this grant money in my opinion. The money will go into the pockets of government employees and the special interest groups that they actually serve.
Did you read the article? Ain’t ideal, but where did you source your assertions? ================================================================== “will provide funding for a dedicated Probation Officer who will focuses their efforts on those DUI offenders who present the greatest risk to the Santa Maria Valley. Case management and supervision strategies will be used to make sure offenders follow court ordered terms of their probation, including home, work and office visits, alcohol testing, and warrant service operations. In addition, funding will be used to develop “Hot Sheets” that identify repeat DUI offenders, and to work with court officials to establish probation orders for DUI offenders on probation.”
Definitely read the article…..it’s words. I lived in the “gov” world for many years and know where the money will really go. If you want to believe the article…go ahead.
Left and right commentators are in agreement about this sort of thing. It is nonsensical to provide “grants” to agencies to do the job they were funded to do by the local government. The “grant” thing is a boondoggle to support bureaucracy at both ends of the process instead of actual interface with the problem. Probably the worst example of this has been the decades long provision of “grants” to study and plan about the homeless. But it is commonly seen in “grants” for everything from crosswalk enforcement to stopping people from buying alcohol for minors. The loss of funds in these transactions is like watching an iceberg melt away before it gets to the people who could use its clean water.
How about a reward then for the general public for calling in possible DUI’s they witness on the road if they are found to be DUI?
Doing that sounds more logical instead to me.
Gee, what could go wrong with offering a bounty on suspected dui drivers you report? Maybe next step is to give a reward to suspected child molestors? How about suspect un-American beings? Or suspected non-legal residents of the country? How much fun we could have.