The Special Adjudication For Enforcement (SAFE) project was designed to examine the effectiveness of a special adjudication/referral/rehabilitation system for dealing with traffic offenders. Although the system has much in common with the administrative adjudication approach in that it eliminates a formal courtroom appearance, it also is unique in that a para-judicial (magisterial) system is employed. Specifically, traffic citations are adjudicated by a magistrate in an informal hearing in which defendents can conveniently and quickly present their cases including any extenuating circumstances. Magistrates are authorized to accept guilty pleas, dismiss the charges, or, where there are questions of evidential fact or where a defendant wishes to contest a case further, to refer cases for formal court hearing. Additional features of the Seattle SAFE system include magistrate referral to a Driver Improvement Analyst (DIA) for diagnosis and/or counselling or direct referral to one of several driver improvement programs.


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    Title :

    Special Adjudication for Enforcement (SAFE)-Seattle


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1978


    Size :

    66 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English