NHTSA Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety Grants is sponsored by Connecticut Department of Transportation. Funds law enforcement initiatives focusing on highway safety, including DUI enforcement, speed reduction, and occupant protection mobilizations.

# Annual Grant Application # Highway Safety Office, Bureau of Policy and Planning, # Connecticut Department of Transportation TABLE OF CONTENTS 1300. 12 ANNUAL GRANT APPLICATION ......................................................................................... 1 1300.

12 (b)(1) UPDATES TO TRIENNIAL HSP .................................................................................. 8 1300. 12 (b)(2) PROJECTS AND SUBRECIPIENT INFORMATION .....................................................

10 IMPAIRED DRIVING (ID) .................................................................................................... 10 OCCUPANT PROTECTION (OP) .......................................................................................... 36 CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY (CPS) ......................................................................................

46 POLICE TRAFFIC SERVICES (PTS)........................................................................................ 64 DISTRACTED DRIVING (DD) ............................................................................................... 75 MOTORCYCLE SAFETY (MS) ..............................................................................................

84 TRAFFIC RECORDS (TR)...................................................................................................... 87 COMMUNITY TRAFFIC SAFETY (CTS) ................................................................................. 96 PREVENTING ROADSIDE DEATHS (PRD) ..........................................................................

116 DRIVER AND OFFICER SAFETY EDUCATION (DOSE) ........................................................ 118 PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION (P&A) ...................................................................... 121 1300.

12 (b)(3) SECTION 405 GRANT AND SECTION 1906 RACIAL PROFILING DATA COLLECTION GRANT APPLICATIONS ..................................................................... 131 1300. 12 (b)(4) CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSURANCES ...................................................................

132 ACRONYM GLOSSARY .................................................................................................................

133 State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 1 # ANNUAL GRANT APPLICATION # Introduction to Federal Fiscal Year 2025 Projects This document contains the Federal Fiscal Year 2025 (FFY2025) Annual Grant Application (AGA) submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) under section 1300.

12 for the Connecticut Highway Safety Office (CTHSO) in the Connecticut Department of Transportation This FFY2025 AGA includes reference to underserved and disadvantaged communities in Connecticut as part of the Federal Government’s Justice40 Initiative.

The Justice40 Initiative, established by the Biden-Harris Administration, is an effort to address longstanding disparities in disadvantaged communities across various sectors, including transportation. There are 27 towns in Connecticut with Justice40 tracts as indicated in the table and map below.

Reducing the fatalities and serious injuries by increasing Federal and State investment and programming in the four major cities of Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven, and Bridgeport will be a priority during the 2025 planning period as these cities are overrepresented in crashes and are underserved areas.

Connecticut’s Justice40 Towns (Not in any particular order) 1) Groton 8) Byram (Community in 15) New Britain 22) West Haven 2) Vernon 9) Fairfield 16) Danbury 23) Norwalk 3) Enfield 10) New Haven 17) Bristol 24) New London 4) Middletown 11) Meriden 18) Stamford 25) Norwich 5) Shelton 12) Bridgeport 19) Waterbury 26) Windham 6) Derby 13) Hartford 20) Torrington 27) Manchester 7) Ansonia 14) East Hartford 21) New Milford State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 2 Connecticut Towns and the Justice40 Tracts > Sources: CTDOT and Justice40 Database; Justice40 tracts within the towns (blue) In addition to the Justice40 Initiative data for Connecticut, the CTHSO will also incorporate data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Justice mapping and screening tool known as EJScreen.

EJScreen's data will be utilized to delve deeper into the communities within New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, and Waterbury, which were identified through the Justice40 layer as disadvantaged and are the top four cities with high incidences of fatalities and serious injuries.

By considering additional information from EJScreen, the CTHSO can establish a more comprehensive understanding of these communities' environmental and socioeconomic challenges. The map below shows the EJScreen Supplemental Demographic Index which uses five socioeconomic indicators including percentage of the population with low life expectancy, low- income, unemployed limited English speaking, and less than high school education.

State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 3 Environmental Justice Screen Supplemental Demographic Index for Connecticut > Source: EPA’s EJScreen mapping and screening tool Note that the dollar amounts for each project in this AGA document are included for the purpose of planning only. They do not represent an approval of any specific activities and/or funding levels.

Before any project is approved for funding, an evaluation of each grant application is required. This evaluation will include a review of the problem identification, performance targets, availability of funding and overall priority level.

State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 4 # Connecticut Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Initiatives Vision Zero Council of Connecticut : CTDOT is committed to eliminating traffic fatalities and is leading the effort with the Vision Zero Council.

The Vision Zero Council of Connecticut is an interagency work group tasked with developing statewide policy to eliminate transportation- related fatalities and severe injuries involving pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, motorists, and The Council was established in 2021 by the Connecticut General Assembly as part of Public Act 21- 28 , a landmark transportation safety bill.

Members of the council include the commissioners (or their designees) of the Departments of Transportation, Public Health, Emergency Services and Public Protection, Motor Vehicles, Education, Aging and Disability Services, Office of Early Childhood, and Office of the Chief State’s Attorney.

Other agencies include the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Liquor Control Division at the Department of Since its inception, the Council and its subcommittees have been focusing on equity, enforcement, engineering, and education and developed proposals for legislation regarding the next steps to implement the recommendations of the Vision Zero Council.

On June 27, 2023, the Governor of Connecticut signed House Bill No. 5917 , An Act Implementing the Recommendations of the Vision Zero Council. At its most basic level, this bill implements policies and authorizes utilizing strategies and tools that have proven to reduce crashes and injuries when implemented in other States. It is a comprehensive package addressing engineering, education, enforcement, and equity.

 Empowers municipalities to deploy automated traffic enforcement with significant  Requires more robust safety education be provided to drivers  Requires CTDOT to consider recommendations from equity stakeholders in annual capital  Requires CTDOT continue work to raise public awareness about the dangers of impaired Blood Alcohol Concentration Limit: Connecticut consistently ranks amongst the top five States in the nation for alcohol-impaired traffic fatalities and is above the national average in terms of alcohol-related fatalities.

To address the problem of impaired driving on Connecticut roadways, CTDOT introduced legislative bills to lower the legal limit of the Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) from 0. 08 to 0. 05 g/dl during the 2023 legislative session and again in 2024.

In 2023, Bill State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 5 1082 was proposed to lower the BAC level to 0. 05 but failed to gain support. In 2024, two bills were proposed: one to lower the BAC to 0.

05 (Bill 424), and another that would classify those driving at BAC levels between 0. 05 and 0. 08 as “ability impaired” with violators paying a fine and required to take a driver safety class (Bill 423).

The CTHSO has worked to address the alcohol- impaired driving issue in the State through various avenues including, but not limited to, educational and awareness campaigns, enforcement grants, etc. Although these bills did not pass in 2024, CTDOT will continue similar efforts in the next legislative session.

Wrong-Way Crashes: In 2023, Connecticut saw a reduction in wrong-way crashes on the State’s interstates and limited access highways after a spike in 2022. In 2022, Connecticut experienced thirteen fatal wrong-way crashes resulting in 23 fatalities, accounting for six percent of total crashes and an approximately 500 percent increase in wrong-way fatalities.

Nearly all fatal wrong-way crashes involved alcohol impairment, with many drivers also testing positive for cannabis and other drugs. To counteract this rise in wrong-way crashes, Connecticut has approved $40 million in funding for wrong-way driving alert systems and as of July 2024, 100 locations have the alert systems installed with online monitoring capabilities.

In addition to wrong-way driver countermeasures, the One Wrong Move media campaign continues to be utilized to address wrong-way driving. CTDOT Traffic Safety Engineering Unit has upgraded signage on 700 limited access highway off- ramps including oversized signs and use of red retro-reflective strips.

Further efforts include systematic installation of pavement markings on secondary roadways at intersections with limited access off-ramps in the State and CTDOT has also refreshed wrong-way arrows and stop bars on exit ramps.

The Office of Traffic Safety Engineering is also installing updated traffic signals at ramp intersections and installing wrong-way signs on the back sides of speed limit signs along Within the CTHSO, there has been added funding for State and local police with Alcohol-Impaired enforcement grants, increased media campaigns addressing cannabis and alcohol use and additional support for the implementation of programs such as Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) trainings, DUI sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols.

The CTHSO also implemented the pilot law enforcement phlebotomy program in 2024, that will train police officers to draw blood avoiding procedural delays. In 2024, there were 10 police officers certified as phlebotomists. In February 2023, the State also held its first Green Lab which provided training to law enforcement partners and provided a chance to assess volunteers under the influence of cannabis as well as combined with alcohol.

In the spring of 2024, the second Green Lab was held, and a third Green Lab will be held in fall 2024. This training is being continued in coordination with the CTHSO and the Connecticut Safety Research Center. It is highly beneficial to law enforcement who may have little exposure to the increased impairing effects of newly legalized recreational cannabis.

State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 6 High Risk Rural Roads: In coordination with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), CTHSO developed a media campaign aimed at education drivers on the danger of speeding on rural roads in Connecticut. With the help of FHWA, enforcement measures were also used to deter speeding on specifically designated sections of rural roads.

In addition, this program included purchase of equipment for law enforcement for speed detection. Safe Routes to School: The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program in Connecticut aims to improve traffic safety for students commuting to and from school. By promoting walking, biking and rolling, SRTS encourages healthier lifestyles while reducing traffic congestion and emissions around school zones.

The program focuses on educating students, parents, and communities about safe travel practices, enhancing infrastructure such as crosswalks and bike lanes, and organizing events like walk, bike and roll-to-school days. This comprehensive approach helps to create safer, more accessible routes for children, ultimately fostering a safer environment for everyone in Connecticut.

Currently, there are 98 registered schools, towns, and individuals for the SRTS program in the State. Complete Streets Policy: In August 2023, CTDOT implemented n ew Complete Streets Design Criteria to be incorporated into all projects, ensuring that every project includes a focus on pedestrian and bicyclist facilities and public transportation operations to create stronger intermodal transportation networks and improve safety.

The Engineering directive added three new controlling design criteria to improve safety and mobility, and includes pedestrian facilities (sidewalks, shared use paths, or side paths on both sides of the roadway), bicycle facilities (paved outside shoulders, bike lanes, separated bike paths, or shared use paths on both sides of the roadway), and transit provisions (crosswalks, shelters, benches, and other ways to make existing or proposed transit stops more accessible).

Automated Work Zone Speed Control Program: In 2021, Connecticut enacted legislation (General Statute Chapter 241, §13a-261 through 268) to establish a two-year pilot program to operate Automated Work Zone Speed Control systems .

The pilot program was implemented to monitor vehicle speeds, issue warnings or violations to the registered vehicle owner when the system detected vehicle speed of 15 mph or more above the posted speed limit and assess fines to repeat offenders. Five locations were analyzed, and all showed reductions in driver speeds.

After a draft Legislative Report was created in February of 2024 to capture and evaluate the findings of the pilot program, Public Act 24-40 was passed to allow Automated Work Zone Speed Control systems as a permanent program.

State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 7 Safe System Approach : The Safe System Approach is part of the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), which can be applied equitably across the transportation network. The principles include that deaths and serious injuries are unacceptable, humans make mistakes, humans are vulnerable, responsibility is shared, safety is proactive, and redundancy is crucial.

CTDOT will evaluate how to integrate Safe System principles into CTDOT’s planning and design practices and will discuss the best ways to integrate this during the Executive and Steering Committee CTDOT continues to address the increase in traffic fatalities on Connecticut roadways with various measures as stated above and remains committed to reducing traffic fatalities and injuries.

State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 8 # UPDATES TO TRIENNIAL HSP # 1300. 12 (b)(1)(i) Adjustments to Countermeasure Strategy for No adjustments for FFY2025. All projects included in the FFY2025 AGA fall under the countermeasure strategies described in the 2024-2026 Triennial HSP that was submitted on July 3, 2023.

Proven countermeasures are being utilized, and progress is being made in reducing injuries and fatalities by using the approved countermeasure strategies. # 1300. 12 (b)(1)(ii) Changes to Performance Plan No changes for FFY2025.

State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 9 # New Public Participation and Engagement Partnerships As part of the FFY2025 AGA, the CTHSO has developed new partnerships that were developed through public participation and engagement, and feedback from communities through meetings with organizations such as the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association, the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy, and the city of Hartford.

These partnerships include the following  Community Action Agency of New Haven (CAANH) – Developing a new relationship with this organization through the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association (CPCA) to serve Justice40 communities in New Haven, East Haven, West Haven, North Haven, and Hamden.

The CTHSO will work with CAANH through CPCA to focus on traffic safety issues such as child passenger safety, occupant protection, pedestrian safety, and others. which will be addressed through this partnership.

This relationship will work toward developing  Western Connecticut Police Chiefs – Creating a pilot program to support the regional traffic safety operations with a mobile traffic safety vehicle used for conducting impaired driving enforcement activities, such as DUI safety checkpoints, and equipment such as  Colchester Fire Department – Developing a teen driver and community educational pilot program to reduce crashes involving first responders and highway workers on the roadway shoulders with the potential to expand to other fire departments in Connecticut.

This program will increase awareness of the Move Over law in Connecticut through such  Griffin Health – Working with the Griffin Health Community Outreach Department, a new project will allow Child Passenger Safety Technicians to educate new parents on proper car seat installation and safe practices and to increase the number of appointments to help parents and caregivers transport children with special healthcare needs.

This project will support Child Passenger Safety services in Justice40 communities including but not limited to Derby, Ansonia, Prospect, Seymour, Shelton, Waterbury, and other towns that are part of the Naugatuck Valley region.  City of Hartford Health and Human Services – Supporting child passenger safety through the Safe Kids Hartford Child Passenger Safety Program.

This program will offer an open car seat clinic every month, an appointment-based car seat check day every week, and a trained Child Passenger Safety Technician will visit schools and community-based and faith-based organizations.

State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 10 # PROJECTS AND SUBRECIPIENT INFORMATION # Project ID-1: DUI Overtime High Visibility Enforcement and Equipment Project description : High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) objectives will be accomplished through coordinated sobriety checkpoint activity and roving/saturation patrols. Law enforcement agencies will be offered DUI overtime enforcement grants.

In order to fulfill the Impaired Driving Program countermeasures, the CTHSO will make an extra effort to add additional saturation patrols and checkpoints during holiday crackdowns and weekends. These grants will be available to police departments for the holiday/high travel periods and for non-holiday travel periods creating year-round sustained enforcement.

Enforcement will be targeted at high DUI activity periods identified in the statewide problem identification and by municipal police departments based on specific community core hours of related alcohol activity through this project. The CTHSO will make every effort to encourage DUI checkpoint activity every weekend throughout the year.

It is anticipated that approximately 50 agencies will participate as subgrantees and an estimated 100 DUI checkpoints and approximately 3,000 roving/saturation patrols will be conducted statewide throughout the fiscal year. Enforcement will target high risk regions and communities where DUI activity is known to be significant, based on a multi-year data analysis of passenger vehicle injury crashes.

The CTHSO will continue to encourage regional cooperation and coordination of checkpoints. If equipment is needed for the performance of checkpoint or saturation patrol activities, funds may be awarded for the purchase of DUI related equipment. The equipment may be jointly utilized by Regional Traffic Units (RTUs).

Equipment examples include DUI mobile command vehicles for RTUs, breath-testing equipment, oral fluid testing equipment, passive alcohol sensing flashlights, stimulus pens for horizontal gaze nystagmus (HGN) tests, checkpoint signage/portable lighting equipment and other eligible DUI-related enforcement equipment. Impaired driving HVE campaigns will consist of enforcement mobilizations supported by media campaigns.

The enforcement mobilizations will pair with various media campaigns during holiday periods throughout the year. The media campaigns will feature the NHTSA slogan Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over . Enforcement mobilizations will also occur outside of holiday periods for year- round enforcement.

State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 11 Enforcement mobilization : Both State and municipal police will be eligible to participate in grant funded overtime for impaired driving enforcement. For FFY2025, it is estimated that up to 50 agencies will participate in impaired driving enforcement mobilization. A full list of agencies will be included in the CTHSO’s first amendment.

The Connecticut State Police Traffic Services Unit (CSP-TSU) will be eligible to apply for grant funded impaired driving overtime enforcement. State Police activities will take place on State Police patrolled interstates, State routes and local roads.

The following enforcement parameters will be required of participating State and municipal law  DUI Sobriety Checkpoints  Checkpoint activities must be included in the approved grant and must be conducted on the dates specified in the approved grant  Changes to checkpoint dates must be approved by the CTHSO for costs to be  Checkpoint activities are limited to a maximum of 64 shift hours per checkpoint  Roving patrol activities must be included in the approved grant and must be conducted on specified dates and within specified hours  Municipal and Resident Trooper towns are limited to a maximum of 16 shift  The State Police will not be subject to shift hour limits per date but will still be subject to hours per shift limits  October 2024 through September 2025  Enforcement schedules will vary by town based on each town’s problem identification data; all enforcement must take place during the days and times specified in each town’s approved grant  Eligible enforcement dates are shown in each town’s approved grant and generally consist of weekends and holiday periods; dates not included in the grant are not eligible for enforcement  Minimum of 4 hours per shift/Maximum of 8 hours per shift; shifts less than 4 hours or greater than 8 hours may be approved for reimbursement if proper justification is provided  Enforcement Locations (Statewide, focusing on location data)  The State Police will patrol roadways under State Police jurisdiction; these roadways are generally limited access highways but may include other roads that are State Police patrolled State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 12  Towns will patrol roadways under the police department’s jurisdiction  Towns are required to provide information on locations with high DUI crash occurrences in the grant application; these locations must be based on each town’s problem identification data; enforcement activities will focus on these  Participating personnel will vary by town and must comply with the program parameters shown in the approved grant  Planned personnel activities must be provided in the grant application and must be approved for costs to be reimbursable  DUI arrest data and citation data  Supplementary narrative information when needed Advertising will be purchased to run during holiday periods throughout the year and will feature NHTSA impaired driving messaging.

The details about the media component are included under Project ID-6 DUI Media Campaign project description. The primary focus for this HVE will be males ages 21-34.

HVE will occur statewide, including but not limited to Justice40 / Environmental Justice community locations such as:  Ansonia  Bridgeport  Bristol  Danbury  East Hartford  Enfield  Fairfield  Groton  Hartford  Manchester  Meriden  New Britain  New Haven  New London  Norwalk  Norwich  Stamford  Torrington  Vernon  Waterbury Per the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services' (CTDMHAS), the towns in Regions 1, 2, and 4 have high rates of alcohol and polysubstance misuse.

During FFY2025, CTHSO will emphasize activities in towns in these three regions which include a majority of the Justice40 communities in Connecticut. The referenced CTDMHAS map below indicates all towns in Regions 1, 2, and 4.

State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 13 > Source: Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Funding Source Project Number Subrecipient Organization Type Funding 154-ENF_AL 0205-0722-ZZ Municipal Police 154-ENF_AL 0205-0722-DT CTDESPP (CSP) State Government $1,500,000.

00 Eligible use of funds : Funding will be used in accordance with 23 USC 154 for high visibility enforcement and if any equipment is needed.

Planning and Administration costs (if applicable) : No Whether the project is a promised project : No The countermeasure strategy or strategies for programming funds : To reduce deaths and injuries resulting from persons driving motor vehicles while impaired by alcohol or a controlled substance by increasing high visibility enforcement.  2. 1 Publicized Sobriety Checkpoints  2.

2 High-Visibility Roving Patrols  2. 3 Breath Test Devices  2.

4 Passive Alcohol Sensors State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 14 # Project ID-2: Standardized Field Sobriety Test Training (SFST) Project description : This project provides funding for statewide judicial and law enforcement agencies to train personnel in the latest methods of DUI enforcement including Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST), Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE), and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE).

It is anticipated that approximately ten (10) training sessions will be conducted, and 300 officers will be trained through this program. This project will ensure that NHTSA approved SFST procedures are implemented uniformly by practitioners throughout the State.

The expansion of the SFST curriculum by the CTHSO-sponsored trainings will provide law enforcement partners ample opportunity to become proficient in detecting operators who are under the influence of alcohol. Funding can include overtime, facility rental, working lunches, travel, and lodging.

Funding will also be provided for SFST curriculum manuals, printed drug reference guide clipboards, SFST reference notebooks, and reimbursement for specified working lunches during portions of training. SFST is crucial in the enforcement efforts of impaired driving. It is also a prerequisite for ARIDE training and for becoming a DRE.

The CTHSO is funding SFST to increase the number of specially trained officers to combat impaired driving. Furthermore, by offering this training, the CTHSO is expanding the pool of officers that ultimately may become During FFY2025, the CTHSO will emphasize Justice40 / Environmental Justice communities in the major cities of Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven, and Bridgeport.

Funding Source Project Number Subrecipient Organization Type Funding 154-LET_AL 0205-0724-1-AA CTHSO State Government $100,000. 00 Eligible use of funds : Funding will be used in accordance with 23 USC 154 for DUI enforcement training for law enforcement to help combat impaired driving.

Planning and Administration costs (if applicable) : No Whether the project is a promised project : No The countermeasure strategy or strategies for programming funds : Training law enforcement to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from persons driving motor vehicles while impaired by alcohol or a controlled substance.  2. 1 Publicized Sobriety Checkpoints  2.

2 High-Visibility Roving Patrols  7. 1 Enforcement of Drug-Impaired Driving State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 15 # Project ID-3: DRE Overtime Callout and DRE Instructor Support Project description : This project provides funding for a statewide Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) callout system, DRE/ARIDE/SFST training activities, as well as DRE instructor grants.

DRE callout objectives will be accomplished through a coordinated callout list that will be used to ensure that a DRE is called in, when needed, if an on-duty DRE is not available. Every effort will be made to utilize an on-duty DRE prior to calling someone in, to minimize overtime expenditures. Law enforcement agencies will be offered DRE overtime callout enforcement grants.

In order to fulfill the Impaired Driving Program countermeasures, the CTHSO will make an extra effort to add additional DREs to saturation patrols and checkpoints.

The CTHSO will offer law enforcement agencies with certified DREs funding for overtime callouts that utilize the expertise of current Grant opportunities will also be made available for up to 15 Connecticut DRE instructors and will include the Connecticut State Police and municipal police departments.

Project activities will include the coordination of DRE/ARIDE/SFST training activities, ensuring compliance with DRE recertification requirements, overseeing the collection and transmission of electronic data collected through DRE evaluations, assisting in callout situations, and providing support to all current and newly trained Connecticut DREs throughout the State.

Coordination is conducted by CTHSO maintains an active DRE list of certified DREs and DRE instructors, in addition to recertification protocols, communications and callout procedures.

CTHSO maintains a list of ARIDE trained officers when courses are held by CTHSO/POST Funding Source Project Number Subrecipient Organization Type Funding 154-LET_DG 0205-0724-2-AA CTHSO Law Enforcement 154-ENF_DG 0205-0722-2-AB CTDESPP (CSP) State Government $100,000. 00 154-ENF_DG 0205-0722-2-AA CTHSO State Government $100,000. 00 154-ENF_DG 0205-0722-2-YY CTHSO Law Enforcement Agencies $400,000.

00 State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 16 Eligible use of funds : Funding will be used in accordance with 23 USC 154 for DRE management and training opportunities to combat alcohol and drug-impaired driving.

Planning and Administration costs (if applicable) : No Whether the project is a promised project : No The countermeasure strategy or strategies for programming funds : To reduce deaths and injuries resulting from persons driving motor vehicles while impaired by alcohol or a controlled substance by increasing high visibility enforcement; to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from persons driving motor vehicles while impaired by alcohol or a controlled substance by training law enforcement in the detection of drug-impaired driving.

 2. 1 Publicized Sobriety Checkpoints  2. 2 High-Visibility Roving Patrols  2.

3 Breath Test Devices  2. 4 Passive Alcohol Sensors  7.

1 Enforcement of Drug-Impaired Driving State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 17 # Project ID-4: Toxicology Testing Program Project description : This project will provide funding for testing and analysis of toxicology samples and data collection in statewide DUI cases and provide required equipment and education/training to CTDESPP division of Scientific Services (DSS).

This project will provide for a full-time Lab Assistant position at the State Toxicology Laboratory and would be divided between support of the Breath Alcohol Testing (BAT) program, and analysis of toxicology samples in DUI cases.

Activities in BAT will include, but will not be limited to, being a primary instructor for breathalyzer training, instrument evaluation/verification/operability, and assistance with the coordination/accessibility of breathalyzer data connectivity within remote locations.

Activities within the Toxicology Unit will include, but will not be limited to, ensuring instruments are operating as expected on a daily basis, preparing control and/or calibration solutions, cleaning glassware, organizing data, organizing laboratory materials, verifying supply needs/packing slips, and other general duties assigned.

This project will also provide funding for a full-time Information Technology Analyst (ITA3) whose time will be divided between support of Analysts within the Toxicology Unit (20%) and work within the breathalyzer discipline (80%).

Activities will include but not be limited to:  Breath Alcohol Detection (BrAD) Integration and Development – Assisting with the development of the secure network connections between the DSS, local and state agencies, breath alcohol equipment and the vendors cloud environment to ensure the integrity of the equipment and the data being transmitted. To include migration of current access database information and functionality into BrAD.

 Breath Alcohol Conversion Website – Supporting the development of a secure website on a limited access internal system that allows users to enter statistics that are calculated by the website. The results of the calculations are then formatted into an analytical report that users can use to help develop their investigation and provide to courts.

 Draeger 9510 support – To include establishing IP connectivity at all PDs (State Troops and local) to allow information from the Draeger 9510 to be transmitted to DSS servers. Then after the establishment, maintaining and troubleshooting any future issues. This position will be funded 40 percent by the CTHSO grant and the remainder will be covered by grant funding obtained in the DNA section at the lab.

Additionally, this project will provide for contracted information technology personnel who will provide technical expertise and assist with aspects such as the configuration of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for the creation and/or modification of existing Crystal Report files, implementation of Ripplestone, data entry improvements, case assignment and batch process efficiencies, and integration of instrumental data into the LIMS database as they apply to impaired driving casework.

This equipment includes 150 Draeger 9510 replacement State of Connecticut FFY2025 Annual Grant Application 18 instruments. Monthly reports will be submitted explaining casework breakdown related to DUI and non-DUI cases using both instrumentation and supplies. Funding Source Project Number Subrecipient Organization Type Funding 405d-5 (B5BAC) 0205-0743-5-BQ CTDESPP (DSS) State Government $170,000.

00 405d-5 (B5BAC) 0205-0743-5-DO CTDESPP (DSS) State Government $105,000. 00 154-TOX_AL 0205-0719-1-AD CTDESPP (DSS) State Government $2,080,000. 00 Eligible use of funds : Funding will be used in accordance with 23 USC 154 and 23 CFR 1300.

23 for screening and chemical analysis of alcohol and other drug misuse samples.

Planning and Administration costs (if applicable) : No Whether the project is a promised project : No The countermeasure strategy or strategies for programming funds : To reduce deaths and injuries resulting from persons driving motor vehicles while impaired by alcohol or a controlled substance by increasing high visibility enforcement; To reduce deaths and injuries resulting from persons driving motor vehicles while impaired by alcohol or a controlled substance by restricting DUI offenders driving privileges; to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from persons driving