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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/20/madd-paid-800k-to-help-new-mexico-shame-dwi-suspec/
Here's your tax dollars at work. It was only $800K, but after the ACLU sues, the cost will be well over a million. MADD is a corporate pseudo-charity. They are a political money-raising machine, powered by fake statistics, Washington lobbyists, and the DUI madness of the modern police state.
MADD paid $800K to help New Mexico shame DWI suspects, lenient judges on social media
New Mexico’s Department of Transportation will reportedly begin broadcasting case updates on DWI suspects and the judges who go easy on them, thanks to a $800,000 federal grant-funded contract with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
Republican Gov. Susana Martinez said MADD will monitor DWI cases in at least six New Mexico counties hit hardest by drunk driving and then send details about those cases to department officials, who will identify repeat offenders and the judges in official tweets...
...The program, which is set to launch in June, includes plans to have MADD send daily updates to the transportation department after court hearings of some DWI defendants in Bernalillo, Doña Ana, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and San Juan counties, The Journal reported.
The transportation department will then use a Twitter account to post updates on those cases as they move through the court system. The tweets will include already public information, but the department is still determining whether to include the mugshots of defendants, Loren Hatch, a deputy secretary at DOT, told The Journal...
...The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico said it is reviewing the new program, spokesman Micah McCoy told Fox News.
Democratic state Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas called the program a public relations stunt that unfairly places the blame on judges and prosecutors.
“Blaming a judge for not enough conviction rates is like blaming [a baseball] umpire for not enough strikeouts,” he told Fox News.
Here's your tax dollars at work. It was only $800K, but after the ACLU sues, the cost will be well over a million. MADD is a corporate pseudo-charity. They are a political money-raising machine, powered by fake statistics, Washington lobbyists, and the DUI madness of the modern police state.
MADD paid $800K to help New Mexico shame DWI suspects, lenient judges on social media
New Mexico’s Department of Transportation will reportedly begin broadcasting case updates on DWI suspects and the judges who go easy on them, thanks to a $800,000 federal grant-funded contract with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
Republican Gov. Susana Martinez said MADD will monitor DWI cases in at least six New Mexico counties hit hardest by drunk driving and then send details about those cases to department officials, who will identify repeat offenders and the judges in official tweets...
...The program, which is set to launch in June, includes plans to have MADD send daily updates to the transportation department after court hearings of some DWI defendants in Bernalillo, Doña Ana, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and San Juan counties, The Journal reported.
The transportation department will then use a Twitter account to post updates on those cases as they move through the court system. The tweets will include already public information, but the department is still determining whether to include the mugshots of defendants, Loren Hatch, a deputy secretary at DOT, told The Journal...
...The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico said it is reviewing the new program, spokesman Micah McCoy told Fox News.
Democratic state Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas called the program a public relations stunt that unfairly places the blame on judges and prosecutors.
“Blaming a judge for not enough conviction rates is like blaming [a baseball] umpire for not enough strikeouts,” he told Fox News.
