Pre-trial
- As a monitoring tool:
- Ensures public safety as a condition of bond or bail
- Assures the offender’s attendance in court during pretrial release
- Encourages abstinence and deters drinking
- As an assessment tool:
- Identifies people who need additional treatment
- Identifies offenders who can safely be given a break
- As a part of diversion programs:
- Ensures that participants deserve the break they receive
- Identifies those who shouldn’t get a break
Upon conviction or at sentencing
- As a monitoring tool during probation:
- Ensures abstinence (as a condition of probation)
- Helps change behavior
As part of a judicial or administrative license sanction program
- Allows offenders to earn ignition interlock licenses
- Lets people earn full licenses
For prison depopulation
- Keeps those offenders who are not a danger to the community out of prison – considerably more expensive for taxpayers
As part of community re-entry programs
- Ensures that offenders re-entering the community – and their former drinking triggers – do not relapse
