Franklin County Wins National Award mattmontgomery  at:  6/27/2005 3:56:53 PM   Franklin County Sheriffs' Office won 2nd place in the National Sheriffs Association’s Traffic Safety Unit award.  This award was based on the Franklin Co. Sheriff’s Governor’s Challenge Application.  Franklin County Sheriffs Office also placed first in their category for the IACP National Chiefs Challenge.  Franklin County Sheriff Thomas received the award in the photo from the National Sheriff’s Association this week at their annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky.  The IACP award will be presented in Miami in September.    GOHS Special Operation's Director Ricky Rich, Franklin County Sheriff Steve Thomas, Lt. Chris Looney, and GOHS Deputy Director Rob Mikell pose with one of the national awards won by the Franklin County Sheriffs' Office.           GOHS Safe Driving Campaign is EMMY Winner! mattmontgomery  at:  6/22/2005 3:49:21 PM   GOHS SAFE DRIVING CAMPAIGN IS EMMY WINNER Georgia's highway safety ad campaign for television has done it again, this time at the EMMY's! The set of three coordinated campaign ads entitled "Now Playing" has won the EMMY Award for Best Director at the 30th Annual Awards Presentation Saturday night in Atlanta from the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The award-winning ad campaign was co-developed by the Governor's Office of Highway Safety and ImageMaster Productions of Atlanta for broadcast during statewide highway safety mobilizations in 2004 and 2005.  The Best Director EMMY Award went to ImageMaster President Dan Johnson and Senior Producer Port Wilson.  The public service ads promote Georgia's "Click It or Ticket", the "100 Days of Summer HEAT" and "Operation Zero Tolerance" enforcement missions for safety belt, speeding, and impaired driving awareness.         Speed Management Strategic Initiative mattmontgomery  at:  6/22/2005 12:25:13 PM   Speeding is a complex problem, involving the interaction of may factors including public attitudes, road user behavior, vehicle performance, roadway design and characteristics, posted speed limits and enforcement strategies. Accordingly, an interdisciplinary approach involving engineering, enforcement, and education is needed to reduce speeding-related crashes, fatalities and injuries.  This comprehensive approach is speed management. TO VIEW THE ENTIRE REPORT, CLICK ON: HTTP://WWW.GAHIGHWAYSAFETY.ORG/DOCS/SPEEDMANAGEMENTINITIATIVE.PDF           Speeding: A Serious Problem mattmontgomery  at:  6/16/2005 3:45:11 PM   On Monday, June 13th, the Governor's Highway Safety Association released the blockbuster report on the national epidemic of speeding on the roadways of America.  Now you can read the report that has the country thinking about changing behaviors on the issue of driving fast. Go to http://www.ghsa.org/html/media/pressreleases/2005/061305.html for more information.           Photos from Click It or Ticket Kickoff mattmontgomery  at:  6/1/2005 12:37:37 PM   Photographs and Commentary from the May 23rd Click It or Ticket Press Conference On Monday, May 23rd, the Governor's Office of Highway Safety (GOHS), traffic safety advocates, and educators joined lawmakers and law enforcement from around Georgia to kick-off "Click It or Ticket" at Atlanta's Centennial Park. Local law enforcement agencies across Georgia are now involved in a major enforcement wave of safety belt checkpoints and concentrated patrol activity for May and June. TO VIEW THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND MORE OF THE COMMENTARY, VISIT HTTP://WWW.GAHIGHWAYSAFETY.ORG/CIOTCENT.HTML      First Page   Prev. Page   Next Page   Last Page

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