Move to No BAC:  Zero Tolerance For DUI

DUI offenders and students listen to sobering accounts from victims and their families * Washington Coalition Oregon Coalition Home Page

Washington State Coalition of DUI Victim Impact Panels The Washington State coalition board is concerned that panel contact information may not be updated in a timely fashion and that people wishing to attend have been misdirected; therefore, I have deleted all the contact information that I had posted. I am posting web sites for specific panels, when those are available. For information about each panel in the coalition, please contact a representative of the Washington State coalition board (jborte at co.clallam.wa.us). The following cities and counties have DUI panels; some have more than one panel available:   Auburn | Bellevue-CTS (see http://duipanel.info/victimsimpact.html) | Benton/Franklin | Benton-ACDC | Bremerton (see www.nwrems.org/) | Chelan-Douglas | Clallam | Clark | Clark (Hispanic) | Cowlitz | Gig Harbor (Pierce Co.) | Grays Harbor | Island Co. (see www.idipic.org/files/PIP.pdf) | Jefferson | King Co. (see www.duivp.org/ and www.dwipanel.org/coalitionWA.html) | Kittitas | Lewis | Lincoln | Mason | Okanogan/Grant | Olympia/Thurston | Pierce/Tacoma (see www.duipanel.org/)| Skagit | Snohomish (see http://www1.co.snohomish.wa.us/Departments/Human_Services/Divisions/AlcoholDrugs/DUI/) | Gig Harbor | Spokane | Stevens | Walla Walla | Whatcom | Yakimal (2) | Oregon State Coalition – DUI Victim Impact Panels:   Clackamas | Columbia | Crook-Jefferson | Deschutes | Clatsop | Coos | Curry | Hood-Wasco | Jackson | Lane | Linn | Tillamook | Umatilla | Klamath | Lincoln | Multnomah | Wallowa | Washington | Yamhill |

* In 1984, the first Victim Panel was held in Washington State in the NE King Co. District Court with the support of Judge David Admire. By 1992 there were seven Victim Panels in Washington State. In 1992, Senate Bill 6295 was passed which added a new section to RCW 46.61 (penalties for driving or being in physical control of a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs), to enable the court to require a person convicted under 46.l6 to attend an educational program focusing on the suffering of DUI victims. Over ten years ago, the group of DUI Victim Panel Coordinators met and drafted the first Minimum Standards for DUI Victim/Survivor Panels. These standards have been reviewed and updated over the years, and the intent is that each panel coordinator make a "Good Faith" effort to uphold these minimum standards at each program.