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Ellen Snelling M.S., Co-chair, Tampa Alcohol
Coalition er.snelling_at_verizon.net web site
www.tampatac.com
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History of TAC

• Started as a committee of the Hillsborough County
  Anti Drug Alliance in 2001
• Concerns about underage drinking in Ybor City and
  high rate of alcohol-related crashes and
  fatalities in Hillsborough County
• Mission To prevent underage/ high risk drinking
  and alcohol-related consequences
• TAC grew from 5 members in 2001 to 100 in 2006

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Tampa Alcohol Coalition

• Over 100 members
• Courts
• Law enforcement
• Schools
• Universities and colleges
• Parents
• Students
• Businesses
• Prevention and treatment agencies
• MADD volunteers

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BINGE DRINKING

• Increases Risk of
• Assault
• Rape
• Alcohol poisoning
• Car crashes
• Drowning
• Suicide
• Injuries and falls
• Fatalities

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Hillsborough County Sheriffs DUI and Underage
Drinking Law Enforcement
7,054 DUI arrests made in Hillsborough County
in 2006 533 DUI arrests- persons under age 21 1
in the State in DUI arrests
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DUI arrests- 18 to 20 year olds in
Hillsborough County
18 to 20 year olds made up 4.6 of the licensed
drivers, but comprised 7.6 of DUI arrests and
12.8 of the drinking drivers in alcohol-related
crashes (HCSO)
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Hillsborough County .02 Violations

• 10 .02 driving
• violations in 2004
• 79 .02 violations
• in 2005
• Increase due to
• Operation Teen
• Angel
• GIS map made
• by HCSO Crime
• Analysis Dept.

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HCSO Responsible Vendor- Last Drink Survey
Persons arrested for DUI are asked where they
were drinking. Data is recorded- law enforcement
investigates problem bars. HCSO Deputy offers
resources such as training and safe rides.
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GIS Maps to Promote Policy ChangeHCSO
Helped Amend County Bottle Club Policy in 2005
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DUI Education for Offenders

• DUI Counterattack
• Level I 12 hours of instruction
• Level II 21 hours of instruction
• Both levels include a substance abuse
  evaluation
• MADD Victim Impact Panel

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Hillsborough Countys 3 Pronged DUI Initiative

• Enforcement- HCSO BATmobile, frequent sobriety
  checkpoints and saturations (multi-agency)
• Prosecution- State Attorneys Office has a
  dedicated DUI prosecutor
• Treatment- offered for multiple DUI offenders at
  Tampa Crossroads TRIAD

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Alcohol-Related Fatalities
Hillsborough County alcohol fatalities declined
25 since 2002 Note Data obtained from Florida
DHSMV.
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ALCOHOL IS A DRUG-THE 1 DRUG OF CHOICE FOR
TEENS
ALCOHOL KILLS MORE YOUNG PEOPLE THAN ALL
ILLEGAL DRUGS COMBINED
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2005 Underage Drinking Data
Source- 2005 YRBSS Survey of high school
students- behaviors in past 30 days
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Ybor City Entertainment District

• Ybor City entertainment district red area on GIS
  map (highest bar density- 87 liquor licenses
  within a few blocks)
• Most bars allow ages 18
• Many Drink Specials offered
• Ybor has highest underage drinking arrests in the
  city
• High in assaults and drug arrests

GIS map by Dr. Richard Scribner
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Tampa Police Department Underage Drinking Law
Enforcement

• Undercover TPD officers and Alcoholic Beverage
  agents conduct compliance checks and underage
  drinking operations in Ybor City
• TPD patrols Ybor parking lots and alleys for
  drinkers
• Investigate party buses from universities
• Conduct DUI operations in and around Ybor
• Collaborate with universities, schools, ABT and
  TAC

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City of Tampa Underage Drinking Arrests 2005

• 313 total underage
• drinking arrests in
• Tampa
• 269 (86) underage
• drinking arrests in
• District 3, mainly in
• Ybor City
• reference TPD Crime
• Analysis

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Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and
Tobacco

• SUDS Stop Underage Drinking and Sales, Florida
  Hotline [phone]-SUDS
• Compliance checks and underage drinking
  operations
• ABT conducts alcohol source investigations of
  underage DUIs and DUI crashes (ICARE)
• ABT agents collaborate with coalition, MADD,
  schools, other law enforcement agencies and
  universities
• TAC members observe ABT agents during underage
  operations

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Mock Crash at Blake High School
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Underage Drinking Billboard
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Alcohol Policy

• TAC uses data, GIS maps and survey results to
  advocate for local alcohol policy change
• Age 21 and up in bars
• Restricting drink specials
• 2006 SurveyUSA Survey of 500 Tampa Bay Adults
• 71 support age 21 to enter a bar
• 62 support restricting drink specials
• 68 support changing bar closing time from 3 AM
  to 2 AM

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Cheap Drink Promotions
Drink Special flyers promoting free and cheap
drinks are distributed by bars to college
students- in dorm rooms and on car windshields
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Greenery Pub- Bar Near USF Campus

• Jan 2006, Greenery Pub
• requests expansion
• Pub markets to USF
• students, features cheap
• drink specials
• TAC supported
• homeowners group effort
• to stop bar expansion
• Homeowners presented
• crime data, testimony,
• video outside of Pub
• May 2006, County
• Commission denied
• expansion

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Drunk Bitch Friday- Cancelled
Drunk Bitch Friday Lex and Terry Radio show
featured drunk women. Show host Lex gave DB
Charlee beer through a beer bong during a DBF
broadcast and photos were posted on Lex and Terry
website. Women drank on the show until they got
drunk. Some threw up. Some passed out.
Because of protests by TAC and other coalitions,
DBF was taken off the air in January 2006