Budget Issues To Prevent Cops From Acting As Judge And Jury

By Kleinheider Posted on May 7, 2008 at 10:33 am

Governor Phil Bredesen has sent a letter to Senator Randy McNally requesting the withdrawal of a bill which would authorize police to take away a motor’s drivers license at the point of arrest on a DUI charge due to budget constraints:

Unfortunately it is not possible to dozens of new positions to administer this measure at the same time we are planning workforce reductions across government.

Read the full letter here which was sent to both the House and Senate sponsors of the legislation.

Last summer, Governor Bredesen embarrassingly praised administrative revocation as a legislative achievement before finding out it had not actually passed. He subsequently vowed to make the effort to pass such legislation a priority.

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