$300K Grant Awarded To Alameda County Sheriff’s Office

CASTRO VALLEY, CA — The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office was awarded a $300,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety. The grant will support ongoing enforcement and education programs to help reduce the number of serious injuries and deaths on our roads.

“This funding will be of great assistance in keeping our communities safer through traffic enforcement aimed at reducing serious injury and fatal crashes and impaired and distracted driving on our roads,” said Commander Chris Lucia of the ACSO.

The grant will provide additional programs and resources, including:

• DUI checkpoints and patrols specifically focused on suspected impaired drivers.
• Enforcement operations focused on suspected distracted drivers in violation of California’s hands-free cell phone law.
• Bicycle and pedestrian safety enforcement operations focused on driver behaviors that put vulnerable road users at risk.
• Enforcement operations focused on top violations that cause crashes: speeding, failure to yield, stop sign and/or red-light running, and improper turning or lane changes.
• Community education presentations on traffic safety issues such as distracted driving, DUI, speeding, and bicycle and pedestrian safety.
• Collaborative enforcement efforts with neighboring agencies.
• Officer training and/or recertification: Standard Field Sobriety Test (SFST), Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE).

The grant program will run through September 2024.

Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.