Some of those serving sentences for DUI may get out of jail a little early, if a recently approved pilot monitoring program succeeds and spreads to the rest of Yavapai County.
DUI offenders may be out of jail, but they won’t be off the hook. Instead, a judge may approve offenders to serve their detention at home.
“It’s an experimental project, but if we can offer projects that provide service to the taxpayers while also proving to be better methods of changing habits then I’d be willing to keep trying that,” Yavapai County District 3 Supervisor Chip Davis said.
A private firm contracted to the county will install, remove and keep tabs on the offender with a GPS monitoring device with the added function of measuring use of alcohol by the wearer. The county will soon put out a request for bids.
Prescott Justice of the Peace and Prescott City Magistrate Arthur Markham requested the pilot program go before the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 4, which approved it 3-0.
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For the full story, see the Wednesday, Sept. 19, edition of The Camp Verde Journal or the Cottonwood Journal Extra.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
