The Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) has been chosen once again by the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to serve as the statewide traffic safety training agency in an ongoing effort to combat drugged and drunk driving across California. This year’s $3.4 million in OTS grants will allow the OCDA to continue its multi-day impaired driving course that will provide law enforcement officers across California with training to recognize drugged impaired drivers.
The number of drug-impaired driving cases investigated and prosecuted across California increased in the wake of the state’s 2016 decriminalization of marijuana.
OTS has awarded the OCDA two grants totaling $3.4 million to fund the office’s Alcohol and Drug Impaired Driver Vertical Prosecution Program, which dedicates eight prosecutors and one investigator to prosecuting drugged and drunk driving cases, as well as continue the California Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor (TSRP) Training Network, which trains California law enforcement and prosecutors on how to effectively investigate and prosecute driving under the influence of drugs cases…