In an ongoing effort to combat impaired driving within the city limits,  Baton Rouge Police Department’s DWI Task Force will begin a six-day enforcement campaign, beginning today Wednesday, June 29, through Monday, July 4th.

DWI Task Force officers will conduct a sobriety and compliance checkpoint on Wednesday night, June, 29,  followed with additional Task Force Patrols beginning early afternoon each day through Monday, July 4. 

Statistics gathered from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration over the past 25 years show that, on average, nearly half of all deadly traffic crashes over each year’s July 4th holiday involved some level of alcohol.  About 64% of Louisiana fatalities during July 4th weekend last year involved alcohol.  The rate of alcohol impairment among drivers involved in fatal crashes in 2010 was four times higher at night than during the day.” 

Impaired drivers not only take the risk of hurting or killing themselves or someone else, the trauma and financial costs of an alcohol-impaired-driving crash or an arrest can be significant.  Vi

LORRI BURGESS  (D),  Baton Rouge, has announced her candidacy for the Louisiana House of  Representatives, District 67.

Burgess served for twelve years as a member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Metropolitan Council, chairing that body as Mayor Pro Tempore for four years. She also served on the Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission.  She stated that her years of serving the community in local government and her state government experience which included work in the legislative branch as a legislative assistant to then state representative and senator, the Honorable John Michael Guidry and later as a research analyst for the state senate has uniquely prepared her to be the servant leader that the citizens of District 67 deserve as their next State Representative.

Because of her work in the non-profit sector facilitating healthcare services to poor and underserved communities, she is committed to work as a state representative to ensure all of our citizens have access to affordable healthcare.

In Baton Rouge, July 4th celebrations often include cook-outs, picnics, time spent with family and friends and, of course, fireworks.  But for too many Americans, the nation’s annual celebration is filled with tragedy, as it is one of the deadliest holidays of the year when it comes to alcohol-impaired traffic fatalities. 

 In an ongoing effort to combat impaired driving within the city limits,  Baton Rouge Police Department’s DWI Task Force will begin a six-day enforcement campaign, beginning Wednesday, June 29, through Monday, July 4th.

DWI Task Force officers will conduct a sobriety and compliance checkpoint on Wednesday night, June, 29,  followed with additional Task Force Patrols beginning early afternoon each day through Monday, July 4. 

Statistics gathered from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration over the past 25 years show that, on average, nearly half of all deadly traffic crashes over each year’s July 4th holiday involved some level of alcohol.  About 64% of Louisiana fatalities during July 4th weekend last year invo