Incline Village, NV, Looking to Form DUI Live Victim Impact Panel
Starting this month, Nevada DUI law requires everyone convicted of a DUI to attend a live victim impact panel. This is prompting more rural areas of Nevada, which have formerly relied on DVD recordings of panels, to search for DUI victims and families of DUI victims willing to share their stories.
Currently, live victim impact panels exist in and around Clark County, Reno and Carson City. But many people convicted of DUIs also lose their licenses and cannot afford transportation to these cities. In response to Nevada DUI law, Incline Village, Nevada, is now in the process of forming the Tahoe DUI Education Program to establish live victim impact panels.
In order to become a panel member in the Tahoe program, you or someone close to you had to have been injured in a DUI. In addition, you have to want to help people not to become repeat offenders. Panels will include two or three people and will meet three or four times a year, as early as this January.
Nevada DUI law makes it illegal to drive while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Even if you’re in control of your faculties, it is automatically illegal to drive with a BAC of .08 or above. If a cop pulls you over on suspicion of DUI, he may ask you to perform a series of field sobriety tests and request a blood or alcohol test, which you impliedly consent to just by driving in Nevada.
