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HOUSE OKS ANTI-DWI TECHNOLOGY: Back in April, I did a column on U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján’s support for anti-DWI technology in vehicles that stops a drunken driver before they hurt someone.
The New Mexico Democrat said his RIDE Act, like the HALT Act in the House sponsored by Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., David McKinley, R-W.Va., and Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., “would involve a variety of drunk driving prevention systems, including driver monitoring, which can detect signs of distracted, impaired or fatigued driving, and alcohol detection, which uses sensors to determine that a driver is under the influence of alcohol, and then prevent the vehicle from moving,” according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. More often than not, Albuquerque property owners whose uncorrected code violations prompted city intervention were not paying up.
From 2015 to 2019, the city’s Code Enforcement Division issued $2.9 million in liens to recover money it spent cleaning up weeds or litter infractions, demolishing vacant problem properties or performing emergency board-ups.
But it recouped just $1.3 million in that span.
That was a finding in a 2020 report from the Office of Internal Audit that helped spur change. The Planning Department has worked with city information technology staff to streamline reporting systems, and it assigned an employee to specifically work on the Code Enforcement Division’s books.