Darrel L. Longest

About the author: Darrel L. Longest is the founder and CEO of Life Sciences Corporation, a privately held company known as the Ignition Interlock Group. The company is a multi-state service provider for ignition interlocks that installs, maintains, monitors, and reports on interlock use by DUI and DWI offenders.

Ignition interlock devices prevent drunk driving offenders from operating motor vehicles while intoxicated by requiring a breath test from the driver before the vehicle will start. The devices also contain computer chips that record drivers' attempts to drive drunk. Interlock devices have been proven to reduce the re-arrest rates of chronic drunk driving offenders, who participate in ignition interlock programs on a voluntary basis in exchange for early driver's license reinstatement after a conviction. States are expanding their use of ignition interlock programs under...