The following is an estimate of DUI arrests in selected Metro Atlanta Counties for one week based on publically available records.  The information is only as accurate as the public records from which it is obtained.  

*Percent under 1000 means a very low risk of DUI arrest per population.  Percent over 2000 means DUI Hot Spot very risky to Drive after Drinking.  If you would like your counties statistics shown please contact us with information on obtaining the public records.

The following is an estimate of DUI arrests in selected Metro Atlanta Counties for one week based on publically available records.  The information is only as accurate as the public records from which it is obtained.  

*Percent under 1000 means a very low risk of DUI arrest per population.  Percent over 2000 means DUI Hot Spot very risky to Drive after Drinking.  If you would like your counties statistics shown please contact us with information on obtaining the public records.

The following is an estimate of DUI arrests in selected Metro Atlanta Counties for one week based on publically available records.  The information is only as accurate as the public records from which it is obtained.  

*Percent under 1000 means a very low risk of DUI arrest per population.  Percent over 2000 means DUI Hot Spot very risky to Drive after Drinking.  If you would like your counties statistics shown please contact us with information on obtaining the public records.

On July 1st, 2008, Georgia DUI laws will get tougher.  The new Georgia DUI law is designed to teach new DUI offenders an additional lesson and increase jail time and consequences for multiple offenders.   The Georgia General Assembly passed House Bill 336 with very little opposition in 2008 legislative session.  Beginning  on July 1st, 2008,  people who plea to or are convicted of driving DUI will be subject to more jail time, a felony record in some cases, and additional DUI classes.  A fourth DUI in Georgia in ten years will be felony if you are arrested after July 1st 2008.   It doesn't matter where the other DUIs occurred as long as the Fourth one is a Georgia DUI.   Your first two DUI convictions or pleas are regular misdemeanors subject to a year in jail or a $1000 fine.  A third Georgia DUI is a high and aggravated misdemeanors which increases the maximum punishment up to $5,000 and a year in jail generally with limited good time credit  for time served, meaning you are likely to serve day for day.  A new  felony DUI conviction will result in a prison sentence of one to five years but can be probated or suspended by the Judge except for 90 days which is mandatory.   Additionally, the measurement for minimum punishments for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd DUIs will increase from 5 years to 10 years.  This means that if you had a DUI  6 years ago and get a second DUI you will be subject to minimum punishments of 72 hours in jail as opposed to 24 hours and the additional requirements of a 2nd in Five DUI like 30 days community service et cetera. 

The new law will make changes in sentencing for first Georgia DUI offenders.  There will be another requirement after a Georgia DUI Defendant completes the Georgia DUI School which is a 20 hour $280 course.  For a first Georgia DUI conviction, in addition to DUI School, fines of $300, and 40 hours of community service offenders will have to take a clinical evaluation and complete a treatment program.

The e-mail, dated Sept. 27, 2006, indicates that the Intoxilyzer "on occasion" printed out different blood-alcohol readings than what it displayed on its screen.  The email also revealed that the amount of air required to provide a breath sample varied depending upon the version of software running the machine and could trigger a false insufficient sample reading which could result in a one year driver's license suspension for refusal to take the test in Georgia.   These CMI, Inc.  Intoxilyzer 5000 are the "state administered" test in Georgia DUI arrests.   

CMI updated the Minnesota version of its Intoxilyzer software in summer 2005. It was first awarded the contract in 1997.

"We performed a variety of tests under different conditions using each version and the results were not the same," wrote toxicologist Pat Pulju in the e-mail to other state and CMI officials.

At a hearing before the State of Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles in February of this year, Dr. Michael Hlastala, of the University of Washington, a forensic consulting in human physiology and DUI breath testing and the nature of alcohol in the body, testified that a woman who ingests the exact same amount of alcohol as a man will produce a DUI breath result that exceeds the man's by 5.6 percent.

Dr. Hlastala also testified at the DUI trial that the lung capacity of an African-American male is approximately 3 percent smaller than a Caucasian. "Because of the smaller capacity, an arrestee must expel a greater fraction of his lung capacity, the Intoxilyzer 5000 results are inflated by a factor of 3 percent," Hlastala concluded.

With Atlanta DUI prosecutors aggressively trying DUI's at the 0.08 level and given the inherent variability of deep lung air in successive breath samples of +/- 0.02 as discussed in the Georgia DUI Intox 5000 training manual (2004 Edition) and as evidence by the Georgia statutory over 0.02 sample variance exclusion rule, this could result in margins of error for blacks and women in the 28%-31% range.

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