Brian Swift, NASID Spokesperson; Chris Swonger, CEO of DISCUS and Responsibility.org; Darrin Grondel, Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org; Jill InGrassia, Executive Director, Advocacy & Communications AAA; Jonathan Adkins Executive Director, GHSA; Darrin Grondel Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org
NAISD Conference hosts Responsibility.org, AAA, and GHSA welcome everyone to the 1st NASID Conference. Brian Swift, NASID Spokesperson, speaks on why impaired driving prevention is an important issue.
Why Impaired driving demands a multiple substance approach
Christine Frank, Highway Safety Specialist, NHTSA and Christine Moore, President of 9-Delta Analytical LLC
Christine Frank and Christine Moore speak on why impaired driving demands a multiple substance approach.
Key Challenges and complications of Multiple Substance Impaired Driving
Jennifer Tibbitts-Knudsen, Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor, Colorado District Attorneys’ Office and Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead Kimley-Horn
Jennifer Tibbitts-Knudsen speaks on the key challenges and complications of multiple substance impaired driving.
State Highway Safety Office Response: Multiple Substance Impaired Driving
Karen Sprattler Behavior, Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn and Russ Martin, Senior Director of Policy and Government Relations, GHSA
Russ Martin from speaks on the State Highway Safety Office Response to Multiple Substance Impaired Driving.
Countermeasures Detection
Brian Shaffer, Director Government Affairs, Drager; Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn; Darrin Grondel, Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org; Matthew W. Myers, BS, MPA, Assistant Chief of Police: Peachtree City, GA; Curt Harper, Chief Toxicologist, Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences; Jennifer Davidson, Highway Safety Specialist, NHTSA; Jayme Derbyshire, Officer, Montogmery County Department of Police
The speakers Darrin Grondel, Matthew Myers, Curt Harper, Jennifer Davidson and Jayme Derbyshire discussed the use the use of law enforcement training and deployment, oral fluid testing, e-warrants, phlebotomy and green labs when it comes to the detection of impaired driving.
Prioritization Discussion
Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn; Darrin Grondel, Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org
Day one of the NASID conference wrapped up with a discussion on prioritization.
Toxicology: Issues, Challenges, Project Goals
Erin Holmes, Director, Global Road Safety, Abbott; Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn; Jennifer Harmon, Crime Laboratory Director for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department’s Regional Crime Lab; Jake Nelson, Director of Traffic Safety Advocacy and Research for AAA; Christine Moore, President of 9-Delta Analytical LLC; Amy Miles, Director of the Forensic Toxicology Program at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Issues, challenges and project goals were spoken on by our presenters, Jennifer Harmon, Jake Nelson, Christine Moore, and Amy Miles in our Toxicology panel.
Adjudication and Remediation of DUID
Erika Eckley, Vice President of Legislative Affairs, Intoxalock; Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn; Mike Hanson, Treasurer of the Governors Highway Safety Association and Director of the Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety; Bill Lindsey, Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor for Alabama; Terrence Walton, Chief Operation Officer of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals; Judge Richard Vlavianos, Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of San Joaquin; Joanne Thomka, Director of the National Traffic Law Center of the National District Attorneys Association; Sam Nathews Vice President, Communications and Branding
During the Countermeasures: Adjudication and Remediation of DUID panel, Mike Hanson, Judge Richard Vlavianos, Terrence Walton, Bill Lindsey and Joanne Thomka spoke on prosecution, drug courts, offender monitoring and training.
Behavior Change Campaigns that Work
Leslie Kimball, Jake Nelson, David Ocamb and Shelly Baldwin
During the lunch session on Countermeasures: Public Education, our panelists Leslie Kimball, Jake Nelson, David Ocamb and Shelly Baldwin spoke on messaging and why it is important to help prevent impaired driving.
Synthesis and Closing Remarks
Darrin Grondel, Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org and Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn
To wrap up the conference, a discussion was held to create a national action plane and a wrap up of the conference.