Guardian Ignition Interlock
The Original Ignition Interlock System
In Ohio the battle over penalties for OVI (operating vehicle impaired) has been raging for a long time, but in the past few years it heated up as lawmakers in the state struggled to pass Annie’s Law. A law that requires ignition interlocks for all offenders, Annie’s Law came to fruition recently after years of …
When Annie Rooney’s family began their attempts to pass Annie’s Law, the Ohio ignition interlock law, they knew it would have its detractors. Some believe ignition interlocks should only be used for repeat offenders who are more likely to drink and drive again, while others worry that such a strict law would mean that casual …
When Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) stood up in support of ignition interlocks and made them a main part of their Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving, their goal was to ensure that every state in the USA had a law that would require every offender to install the device in any vehicle he or she …
Driver’s license suspension or ignition interlocks? States debate which one to use to stop drunk drivers, and both have supporters. But if you look at driver’s license suspensions as the only means to stop a drunk driver, you’ll come up short in many ways. A driver’s license suspension relies on the driver to make a …
Annie Rooney has been dead for over three years, but her family is still fighting a battle in her name. Shortly after she was killed by a woman with repeat drunk driving convictions, the Ohio native’s family launched an effort to pass Annie’s Law; a law that would bring ignition interlocks to all Ohio operating vehicle …
Anyone who gets behind the wheel while drunk is dangerous. You can do a lot of damage when you’re drunk driving a car or truck that weighs several tons, and it looks like at least one judge in Ohio knows just how lethal someone is when he or she continues to make that choice. One …
Mug shots aren’t supposed to be flattering, and some of the strangest mugshots ever taken have been of offenders arrested for drinking and driving or public intoxication. Mugshots are taken shortly after an offender is brought in for booking, and they have multiple uses including establishing the physical condition of the offender at the time …
Drinking, driving, texting, and capturing it all on video? It sounds like a recipe for disaster, and after one man from Ohio did all four at one time, the New York Post put him front and center with the headline, “Idiot arrested after posting drunk driving video on Facebook.” It’s a bad idea to drive …
It might have felt like a failure to the people behind the bill, but when Annie’s law failed to pass in Ohio last year, that just renewed their determination to make it work. Named for Annie Rooney, an attorney from Ohio who was struck and killed by a drunk driver, the bill proposed that ignition …
Ohio uses the term operating vehicle impaired (OVI) to classify drunk drivers, and the state’s OVI laws have been under scrutiny recently as some lawmakers push for ignition interlock program for all offenders in an attempt to decrease OVI-related deaths and injuries. A first OVI offense in the state of Ohio will result in the …
