The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office has received a $768,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety. The funding will support a team that prosecutes alcohol- and drug-impaired driving cases. The grant runs through September 2026. Its goal is to improve road safety by holding impaired drivers accountable. District Attorney Carla Rodriguez thanked the state for the funding and noted its role in addressing impaired driving.
This is the fourteenth year Sonoma County has received this grant. The team will also work with the statewide Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor Training Program. They will help train other prosecutors and law enforcement officers. In the last grant cycle, the team filed 2,534 DUI cases. Of these, 205 involved drugs and 207…..