Ignition devices required in DUIS
New law affects arrested drivers
Nevada drivers arrested on DUI charges must install a device that measures their blood alcohol concentration if they want to get back behind the wheel.
A new state law took effect Monday that requires all people arrested on a DUI charge to install an ignition interlock device on their vehicle before they are eligible to have their driving privileges reinstated. Once the device is in place, a driver must blow into it each time they want to go somewhere. If it detects even a trace of alcohol, the vehicle won’t start.
The device also contains a camera to help ensure the person blowing into it is the one behind the wheel.
DUI 31st state
stand they were just doing their jobs,” he told the newspaper.
That and other alcohol-related incidents prompted him to get sober, he said.
Laxalt is facing Democrat Steve Sisolak in one of the nation’s most closely watched gubernatorial races.
The complaint game
A week after Democrats alleged in an ethics complaint that Laxalt’s official office has given his campaign favorable treatment when it comes to public records request, the Nevada Republican Party has filed their own, alleging that a request they filed with Sisolak’s County Commission office last July still hasn’t been fulfilled.
Clark County spokesman Erik Pappa said the issue with the request falls on him and his office, and added that he was “very surprised” and “disappointed” that the state GOP didn’t follow up on the request from more than a year ago.
“My office and I are responsible for processing public records requests. Such requests should come directly to my office for processing. We take such requests very seriously and strive to be diligent in responding in a timely and complete manner,” Pappa said.
In other complaint news, the state Democratic Party on Tuesday filed an election integrity violation report with the Nevada secretary of state’s office against … Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske.
The group argues that Cegavske’s latest ad does not include certain aspects required by state law, such as the candidate saying that they approved of it or physical or internet address for the campaign.
Wayne Thorley, deputy secretary of state over elections, said that Cegavske’s ad at first glance doesn’t appear to violate the statute because he said the law mainly deals with third-party groups and PACS that are supporting candidates, rather than ads that come directly from the candidate’s campaign.
But Thorley said the office will look
into it.
Cegavske is running for re-election and is being challenged by Democratic Assemblyman Nelson Araujo.
News and notes
With a little more than a month until Election Day, the Nevada Republican Party lost its top leader, executive director Greg Bailor. Bailor confirmed his departure from the GOP in an email Tuesday but declined to answer questions about why he left his position.
Laxalt was endorsed by the Association of Builders and Contractors in Nevada.
The Republican Attorneys General Association released a TV commercial attacking Democratic nominee Sen. Aaron Ford. The ad features Ford’s testimony at a Senate Judiciary Committee session where he says he “can’t speak to what larceny means” because he isn’t a criminal lawyer. Meanwhile. Ford released an ad that shows Dave Kallas, a retired Metro police officer, defending Ford and saying law enforcement from across the state back him.