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Moonshine
Investigation Training
The Georgia Department
of Revenue, Alcohol & Tobacco Division is co-hosting a Moonshine Investigation
Training with the Rabun County Sheriff’s Office in September 2007.
The training will address several topics, including tracking/camouflage,
legal issues/prosecution, lab reports, and the practicals involving working
stills and their destruction. Click
here to view the training brochure.
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Alcohol Policy
Information System (APIS)
The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS), a project of the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), is an electronic resource
providing authoritative, detailed, and comparable information on alcohol-related
policies in the United States, at both State and Federal levels. APIS
now covers 33 policy topics, including such diverse areas as laws pertaining
to underage drinking and access to alcohol, alcohol control systems, taxes
on alcohol beverages, BAC limits, alcohol and pregnancy, and limitations
on insurers’ liability for losses due to intoxication. The APIS
website, http://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov,
is an important resource for liquor law enforcement, policy makers, and
researchers concerned with the enforcement of alcohol policy.
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We Don't
Serve Teens
The Federal Trade Commission (or FTC) launched the We Don't Serve Teens
national campaign to prevent underage drinking in the fall of 2006. The
web-based resource provides parents, retailers, and others with tools
and information to reduce teen drinking and related harm. The website
also appears in Spanish under the name No
Le Servimos a Menores. The FTC is an independent agency whose mission
is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention
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Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
This database provides crime tabulations of states, metropolitan statistical
areas and cities with over 10,000 inhabitants, suburban and rural counties,
and colleges and universities. Nearly 17,000 agencies contribute data
to the FBI per year. The UCR website, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm,
contains basic arrest statistics for all 50 states, including liquor law
violations and other violations relevant to liquor law enforcement such
as impaired driving and public drunkenness. Many of the files are downloadable
in Excel format.
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National
Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
The UCR program is being expanded to the National Incident Based Reporting
System (NIBRS), which includes detailed and comprehensive data via an
incident-based reporting system. Twenty-three (23) states are currently
NIBRS certified and 5,271 agencies participate. A description of this
program from the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of
Statistics can be found at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/nibrs.htm.
For downloadable data, see http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/NIBRS/index.html.
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Fatality
Analysis Reporting System (FARS)
FARS was developed in 1975 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s
(NHTSA) National Center for Statistics and Analysis to help researchers
in the traffic safety community identify traffic safety problems and evaluate
highway safety initiatives. FARS information includes motor vehicle crashes
that result in the fatality of an occupant of a vehicle or a non-motorist
within 30 days of the incident, within the 50 states, District of Columbia,
and Puerto Rico. It includes estimated BAC levels, violations charged,
and prior DUI and other traffic records of intoxicated drivers. For more
information and downloadable data, see http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov.
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Informational
Coasters: Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault:
Drug-facilitated rape is defined as sexual assault made easier by the
offender's use of an anesthetic-type drug that renders the victim physically
incapacitated or helpless and unable to consent to sexual activity. Whether
the victim is unwittingly administered the drug or willingly ingests it
for recreational use is irrelevant—the person is victimized because
of their inability to consciously consent to sexual acts. According to
NDIC, gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) has surpassed Rohypnol (flunitrazepam)
as the most common substance used in drug-facilitated sexual assaults.
GHB can mentally and physically paralyze an individual, and these effects
are intensified when the drug is combined with alcohol.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has developed informational
coasters that can be distributed to nightclubs and bars to help
raise awareness of this danger. They are willing to produce and distribute
these coasters to alcohol law enforcement agencies who are interested
in distributing them to their licensees. If you are interested in getting
a supply of these coasters, contact Rick Phillips at RJP@LIQ.WA.GOV.
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