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IEVIDENCE THAT COMPLIANCE <br />CHECKS WORK <br />County, Mlnnesota: 1996-1997 <br />✓ July 1996 <br />. Merchant notice of forthcoming checks <br />. Education packets sent <br />. Server training offered to businesses <br />. Notices sent to local governments and the community <br />✓ Decembe� 1996 <br />. First wave of alcohol purchase attempts — 44% failure rate (19 of 43 businesses sold to underage buyers) <br />. Law enforcement made immediate contact with businesses <br />. Follow-up letter sent to merchants <br />. Repeat education offered to businesses that sold <br />. Results of first wave of buys sent to local governments `and media <br />✓ April-May 1997 <br />. Second wave of alcohol purchase attempts — 4.6% failure rate (only 2 of 43 businesses sold to underage <br />buyers) <br />. Follow-up letters sent to merchants <br />. Results submitted to local government and the media <br />Sherbume County used a multidiiiplinary approach to compliance checks, with an active community education <br />program led by the Sherbume County Public Health Department. The joint effort, in eight months, increased <br />compliance with the lawover95%,achieving a 73% reduction in illegal alcohol sales to youth. <br />Contact.� <br />9 Sheriff Bruce Anderson and Officers Don Starry & Steve Olmanson: (612) 241-2550 <br />9 Elk RiverPolice Chief Tom Zervvas and Officers Bryan Vita, Steve Miller, & BobKluntz: (612) 441-2324 <br />9 Becker Police Chief Kevin Rieland and Officer DaveEull: (612) 261-4300 <br />PROJECT21. P/attsburgh PD & Clinton County Sherlff's Department, New York 1996 <br />✓ February 1999 <br />. First wave of alcohol purchase attempts — 46% failure rate (14 of 31 liquor, convenience, and grocery stores <br />sold to underage agents) <br />. Training for Intervention Procedures for Servers of Alcohol (TIPS) provided at cost for all liquor ��ensees <br />✓ May1999 <br />. Second wave of alcohd purchase attempts — 26% failure rate (9 of 44 businesses sold, no repeat offenders <br />from first wave) <br />. 56% reduction in this crime at this point <br />✓ September1999 <br />. Third wave of alcohol purchase attempts —19% failure rate (7 of 37 businesses sold) <br />. At this point, a 26% reduction in underage DWI arrests had been experienced <br />✓ December1996 <br />. Fourth wave of alcohol purchase attempts — 3.5% failure rate (2 of 57 businesses sold) <br />PROJECT 21 ended its first year with a 9% decrease in the availability of alcohol to those under age 21 from Off- <br />sale businesses, and a decrease in underage DWI arrests, which may have resulted from a decrease in incidents of <br />driving underthe influence. <br />Contact: <br />� ➢ Community Service Officer Peter Taelinski: (516) 563-0302 <br />� A�caia EPioa�uo�oc3v Praoaw� 7 Uruveasm <br />