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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Dear Visionaries,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I hope you are all doing well as we enter
the holiday season. I issued a press release a little over a week ago
alerting the public of our “Click It Don’t Risk It!” seat
belt compliance campaign. I’m happy to say that of the 15 cars I
pulled over yesterday, only one person was not in compliance with <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State>’s seat belt
laws. However, I was just visited by a friend form the Lewiston Police
Department (our partner in this year’s campaign), and he and I talked
about our laws relative to <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>’s
laws. In <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place>,
an officer must pull a car over for a “greater” offense (speeding,
having a registration sticker in the wrong place, not having a front plate, etc.)
in order to enforce the seat belt laws. In other words, I cannot pull
over a car just because I see a small child standing up in the back seat—I’d
have to have other probable cause to pull over said vehicle. The <st1:City
w:st="on">Lewiston</st1:City> officer I’ve been working with has spent a
lot of time trying to change <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place>’s
laws regarding seat belt use to: 1. make it a primary offense, and 2. raise the
fines so they are commensurate with other states’ fines for the
same. I’ve heard arguments supporting both sides to this, but I am
curious as to what Latah County’s citizens think about our seat belt laws—whether
they are adequate as they are, if they should change, how they should change,
etc. My own views on seat belt usage have as much to do with how I was
raised as they do with a general aversion to the gruesome scenes I’ve
experienced responding to collisions wherein the passenger(s) were not properly
restrained (and having to notify next of kin). But I also realize that my
experience is just that—mine. What are your thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Thank you for your time,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>~Jennifer <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=black face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;color:black'>Det. Jennifer L. McFarland<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Latah</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Sheriff's Office<br>
Public Information Officer<br>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">PO Box</st1:Street> 8068</st1:address><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">83843</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
(208) 882-2216<br>
Fax (208) 883-2281<br>
</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'><a
href="http://www.latah.id.us/Dept/Sheriff_Main.htm"><font size=2 face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>http://www.latah.id.us/Dept/Sheriff_Main.htm</span></font></a><br>
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</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>Truth is the summit of being; justice
is the application of it to affairs.<br>
***Ralph Waldo Emerson<br>
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