(Beaver Dam) Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt says that he will continue to hold a hard line in preventing drunk and impaired drivers in Dodge County. That includes releasing photos of those arrested by his department every Wednesday on the department’s app and social media.
“The Supreme Court is comfortable with this.” Sheriff Dale Schmidt to WBEV. “What we are driving to do is get people to not want their picture there in addition to not getting in a crash and killing people. We want to make sure they are not driving. It’s not to embarrass people, it’s to encourage people to stop driving while impaired because it’s ripping families apart. We can’t continue to have people operating under the influence, getting in these crashes, people dying, and families being ripped apart.”
“Through the grapevine, people have told me they have been in bars just outside of Dodge County and they say, ‘OK you’re leaving don’t drive in Dodge County, not a good idea.’ That’s the reputation I want.” Schmidt said. “We are going to enforce it strictly and we are going to make sure that we minimize the amount of fatal crashes because of impaired driving. “
Sheriff Schmidt says his frustration on impaired driving came to a head when a pair of accidents happened close together, one involving a multi-time drunk driver that caused a multi-vehicle fatal crash. That was right after a double-fatal head on crash, with both drivers impaired. The fiancé of one those drivers killed sent him a photo of her in her wedding dress holding a picture of the man she was supposed to marry.
