In addition to license suspension, financial penalties, community service, jail, and ignition interlock, New Jersey’s DWI statute requires Intoxicated Driver Resource Center (“IDRC”) attendance. Established within the New Jersey Division of Addiction Services, the Intoxicated Driving Program oversees and supervises Intoxicated Driver Resource Centers statewide. Coupled with other functions, each IDRC runs educational programs about alcohol, drugs, and highway safety. Indeed, each county must establish an Intoxicated Driver Resource Center on a county or regional basis, in cooperation with the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. Additionally, each Intoxicated Driver Resource Center administrator must be a counselor certified by the Alcohol and Drug Counselor Certification Board of New Jersey, or other professional with a minimum of five years experience in the treatment of alcoholism. Read More
If the daily news about the COVID19 coronavirus pandemic has caused you alarm, then read on. Hanover, NJ police recently charged a woman with False Public Alarms, NJSA 2c:33-3, with allegations related to the novel coronavirus. The cops had begun investigating a woman after a one-car motor-vehicle crash earlier in March. The cops suspected she was operating the motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicating substance. During questioning, the woman allegedly became belligerent. But news reports do not elaborate on how she acted belligerently. They only repeat the allegation that she breathed on one officer despite his order to stop. Read More
