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| DUI offenders allowed back on road too soon |
| By rgj.com |
| Published: 01/18/2010 |
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At least nine of the 113 people convicted of killing or seriously injuring someone while driving drunk in Reno since 2000 received new driver's licenses, despite a 1997 law prohibiting them from driving for three years after being released from prison, a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found. The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles blamed the courts for some of the mix-ups, saying they failed to notify the DMV about the convictions so officials had no legal reason to restrict the licenses. At other times, DMV personnel improperly entered information into the computer system, spokesman Tom Jacobs said. In many cases, the Department of Corrections or the Division of Parole and Probation did not notify the DMV about the offenders' status, Jacobs said. A 2008 law sought to fix this problem by requiring the two state agencies to send information on the convicted person's status to the DMV, but at least two drunken-driving felons slipped through the cracks after the law went into effect, the RGJ investigation found. "It's just shameful," Tricia Pearson said of the license oversights. Pearson's 14-year-old daughter, Cecelia, suffered a fractured pelvis, collapsed lung, and a broken wrist and collarbone when Merri Noel Aldis drove drunk into a car carrying Cecelia and two others in 2005. Read More. |
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