American Association of Motor Vehicle
Administrators: www.aamva.org/
The American Association of Motor Vehicle
Administrators is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization
striving to develop model programs in motor
vehicle administration, police traffic services, and
highway safety. AAMVA represents the state and
provincial officials in the United States and Canada
who administer and enforce motor vehicle laws. The
association’s programs encourage uniformity and
reciprocity among the states and provinces, and
liaisons with other levels of government and the
private sector. Its program development and
research activities provide guidelines for more
effective public service.
BACCHUS and GAMMA Peer Education Network:
www.friendsdrivesober.org
The BACCHUS and GAMMA Peer Education
Network is an international association of college
and university based peer education programs
focusing on alcohol abuse prevention and other
related student health and safety issues.
The Century Council: www.centurycouncil.org
The Century Council is a national organization
dedicated to reducing drunk driving and underage
drinking problems. Funded by America's leading
distillers, the Council implements its programs through
partners to create local coalitions of people,
including liquor store owners, police officers, college
presidents, beverage alcohol distributors, parents,
youth, and others, depending on the needs of
individual communities.
Governors Highway Safety Association:
www.ghsa.org/
The Governors Highway Safety Association is a
non-profit association that represents the highway
safety programs of states and territories on the "human behavioral aspects" of highway safety.
Areas of focus include occupant protection,
impaired driving, and speed enforcement, as well as
motorcycle, school bus, pedestrian, and bicycle
safety, and traffic records.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: www.iihs.org
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an
independent, non-profit, scientific and educational
organization dedicated to reducing the losses—
deaths, injuries, and property damage—from crashes
on the nation's highways. Impaired driving is one of
the many human behaviors the institute studies.
International Association of Chiefs of Police:
www.theiacp.org/
The International Association of Chiefs of Police is
the world's oldest and largest non-profit membership
organization of police executives, with over 20,000
members in over 89 different countries. IACP's
leadership consists of the operating chief executives
of international, federal, state, and local agencies of
all sizes.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving: www.madd.org
Mothers Against Drunk Driving is a non-profit
grass-roots organization with more than 600 chapters
nationwide. MADD is not a crusade against alcohol
consumption. Its focus is to look for effective
solutions to the drunk driving and underage drinking
problems, while supporting those who have already
experienced the pain of these senseless crimes.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving: www.madd.ca
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Canada.
National Association of State Judicial Educators DUI
Resource Center: www.nasje.org/
The purpose of this site is to help state and local
judges and judicial educators find useful and current
resources for handling cases or providing judicial
training on impaired driving and other traffic safety
issues. The site offers judges access to articles,
benchbooks, protocols, and other resources for
understanding the nature and impacts of impaired
driving, and for reviewing the admissibility of field
sobriety and chemical tests, conducting DUI trials,
imposing sentences or treatment programs, and
handling other proceedings.
National Commission Against Drunk Driving:
www.ncadd.com/
The National Commission Against Drunk Driving
consists of a broad-based coalition of public and
private sector organizations and other concerned
individuals who are working together to reduce
impaired driving and its tragic consequences.
National District Attorneys Association:
www.ndaa.org/apri/programs/traffic/ntlc_home.html
The National District Attorneys Association’s
National Traffic Law Center (NTLC) is a resource
designed to benefit prosecutors and their traffic
safety partners. The mission of the NTLC is to improve
the quality of justice in traffic safety adjudications by
increasing the awareness of highway safety issues,
with an emphasis on impaired driving, through the
compilation, creation, and dissemination of legal
and technical information and by providing training,
technical assistance, and reference services to
prosecutors and other allied professionals.
National Drug Court Institute: www.ndci.org
After a decade of success with Drug Courts, a
new strategy is emerging that utilizes the Drug Court
model with impaired drivers, particularly with repeat
offenders. DWI (or DUI) Court is a distinct court system
dedicated to changing the behavior of the alcohol -
dependant offenders arrested for Driving While
Impaired (DWI) or Driving Under the Influence (DUI) DWI/DUI Courts utilize all criminal justice stakeholders
(judge, prosecutors, defense attorneys, probation,
law enforcement, and others) coupled with alcohol
or drug treatment professionals to hold offenders at
the highest level of accountability while receiving
long-term, intensive treatment and compliance
monitoring.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:
www.nhtsa.dot.gov
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
has a network of regional Law Enforcement
Liaison (LEL) officers covering all 50 states and
territories. The LEL officer is responsible for providing
support and information to state and local departments
on all NHTSA programs and initiatives. For a
complete list of the current NHTSA LELs, see the posting
on the Library page at www.SobrietyTesting.org.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:
www.stopimpaireddriving.org
A NHTSA Web site dedicated specifically for law
enforcement of impaired driving laws. The site
includes a calendar of national events relative to
impaired driving enforcement campaigns.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism:
www.niaaa.nih.gov/
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism provides leadership in the national effort
to reduce alcohol-related problems by conducting
and supporting research in a wide range of scientific
areas including genetics, neuroscience, epidemiology,
health risks and benefits of alcohol
consumption, prevention, and treatment; coordinating
and collaborating with other research
institutes and federal programs on alcohol-related
issues; collaborating with international, national,
state, and local institutions, organizations, agencies,
and programs engaged in alcohol-related work; and
translating and disseminating research findings to
health care providers, researchers, policymakers,
and the public.
National Sheriffs’ Association: www.sheriffs.org/
The National Sheriffs' Association is a non-profit
organization dedicated to raising the level of
professionalism among those in the criminal justice
field. Through the years, NSA has been involved in
numerous programs to enable sheriffs, their deputies,
chiefs of police, and others in the field of criminal
justice to perform their jobs in the best possible
manner and to better serve the people of their
city/counties or jurisdictions.
National Sobriety Testing Resource Center:
www.sobrietytesting.org
Provides a comprehensive source of information
regarding standardized field sobriety testing, training,
and certification for authorized and active law
enforcement practitioners and instructors. The NSTRC
is a cooperative effort of the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the U.S.
Department of Transportation and the International
Association of Directors of Law Enforcement
Standards and Training (IADLEST).
National Transportation Safety Board: www.ntsb.gov/
The National Transportation Safety Board is one
of the world's foremost accident investigation
agencies. Their job is to find out what causes
transportation accidents, and to recommend safety
improvements to prevent them from recurring.
Impaired driving is one of the NTSB’s focus areas.
NTSB can and frequently does testify before state
legislative committees as long as the Board has a
recommendation on the subject.
Recording Artists, Actors, and Athletes Against Drunk
Driving: www.radd.org
RADD works with celebrities to promote sober
driving. With over 400 members, RADD asks
celebrities to record PSAs and other promotional
materials emphasizing alternatives and sober driving.
Students Against Destructive Decisions:
www.sadd.org
SADD is a program that was developed to
encourage students and parents to band together in
the fight against drinking and driving. Financial
support from the public and from private sectors has
allowed SADD to spread to all 50 states, Canada,
and beyond.
Traffic Injury Research Foundation:
www.trafficinjuryresearch.com/index.cfm
The mission of the Traffic Injury Research
Foundation is to reduce traffic-related deaths and
injuries. It achieves its mission by designing,
promoting, and implementing effective programs
and policies, based on sound research.
Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center:
www.udetc.org
Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, the Center for Enforcing
Underage Drinking Laws provides training, technical
assistance, and resource materials to states and
communities as they implement the Enforcing
Underage Drinking Laws national initiative. |