Two states are considering bills to address drunk driving and other alcohol-involved offenses by making it easier for courts and law enforcement agencies to require individuals to wear Continuous Alcohol Monitoring bracelets.
The concept behind portable breath alcohol testing devices is simple: provide a way for lower-risk clients to take their tests any time, anywhere. However, until now, portable breath testing devices have depended on cellular service for testing and to remind clients when to test. That’s fine, some of the time. But when clients are out of cell range most devices can’t record test results.
Each day, agencies around the country spend thousands of staff hours looking at photos from alcohol breath testing devices. What started as a way to stop alcohol-involved individuals from having a friend take their unsupervised breath test has turned into a huge drain of time and resources for many law enforcement offices.
Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc. (AMS) has announced the acquisition of Gryphex, Inc., a leading developer of GPS monitoring technology. The acquisition, which was completed in November, is part of the company’s larger strategic expansion of their product offerings in order to better meet the needs of a rapidly growing community corrections market segment.