Group plans to monitor DUIs in 2010

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Jan 11, 2010 at 10:53 AM MDT

Story Updated: Jan 11, 2010 at 10:53 AM MDT

MISSOULA - A statewide coalition has begun a yearlong effort to track as many drunken driving cases as possible, in an effort to develop more effective drunken driving laws.

The Montana Common Sense Coalition will be doing its work on the county level, because there is no state agency that has comprehensive information about drunken driving charges.

Kristin Lundgren says volunteers will be tracking how many drunken driving convictions a person has, what their blood-alcohol level was, what their sentence was and how many get plea bargains.

Erin Inman, a special prosecutor for the Department of Justice, says tracking the information will help identify what works and what doesn't.

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