Child Passenger Safety Citation Race

Project Characteristics Program Areas Encouragement of enforcement of child passenger safety law Child Passenger Safety Targeted Audience Jurisdiction City, County & State Law Enforcement Agencies County

Goals

• Increase awareness of local agencies’ enforcement efforts of the child passenger safety law
• Increase child passenger safety law citations

Strategies

The Safe Communities Advisory Board reviews child passenger safety citation statistics on a quarterly basis. The board determined to expand the information into a competition between the law enforcement agencies. A comparison report of the number of citations for violations of the child passenger safety law was prepared depicting each law enforcement agency within the county as being in a “race”. The report was given to each of the agencies’ administrators on a quarterly basis. Individual and agency law enforcement efforts are monitored, and the efforts will be rewarded at an annual recognition event.

Results

• Law enforcement administrators became much more aware of their agency’s efforts to enforce the child passenger safety law.
• Law enforcement agencies are able to review their progress in increasing citations
• Law enforcement agencies are aware of where their efforts fit within the entire state’s citation efforts.