Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Assessment, Strategic Planning ...

• involve its highest court in taking a leadership role and engaging judges in effectivelyadjudicating underage drinking cases and ensuring that they are assigned toknowledgeable and experienced judges.• encourage consistency in the adjudication of underage drinking offenses and theimposition of effective and appropriate sanctions.• provide sufficient resources to adjudicate underage drinking cases in a timelymanner and effectively manage dockets brought before judges.• ensure that judges who handle underage drinking and provision of alcohol to a minorreceive state-of-the-art education (such as in technical evidence), emergingtechnologies for the detection of alcohol, and sentencing strategies for the underagedrinker and the adult provider of alcohol.• use court strategies to reduce recidivism through effective sentencing and closemonitoring. Increase the use of drug or alcohol assessments, identify offenders withalcohol misuse problems, apply effective and appropriate sentences (includingabstinence from alcohol), and closely monitor compliance.• provide probation programs with adequate staffing, training, and resources, includingtechnological resources, to monitor and guide offender behavior.F. ProgramsEach state’s driver licensing agency should conduct programs that reinforce andcomplement the state’s overall program to deter and prevent underage drinking,including:• Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) for novice drivers that includes three distinctlicensing phases for young novice drivers (learner’s permit, restricted license, andunrestricted license) thato requires a learner’s permit for a minimum of 6 months and a total combinedperiod of 1 year before being eligible for an unrestricted license.o requires that drivers practice driving with parental or adult supervision for aminimum number of hours and demonstrate safe driving practices before theymay drive unaccompanied by a parent or adult.o requires a nighttime driving restriction and limits on the number of youngpassengers who may be in the vehicle during phase two.o provides that the permit, the restricted and unrestricted license, and licenses toissued drivers younger and older than age 21 be easily distinguishable.oprovides for license suspension for drivers younger than age 21 who drive with aBAC exceeding the limit set by the state’s zero tolerance law.OMB No. 1121-0329Approval Expires 02/28/201328OJJDP FY 2011 EUDL Assessment, Strategic Planning, and Implementation InitiativeOJJDP-2011-2997