Texas Municipal Courts Education Center

Traffic Safety Conference

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Day 1 - Monday

Day 2 - Tuesday

8:05 – 8:50 a.m.	Why Safe Driving is Important to Our Community (.25 hrs. ethics) W. Clay Abbott, DWI Resource Prosecutor, TDCAA
9:05 – 10:15 a.m.	Understanding Risk Perception: Why Dangerous Driving Choices Can Feel Safe David Ropeik, Instructor, Harvard University; Author, How Risky Is It Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts; and Blogger, Risk: Reason and Reality at Bigthink.com
10:30 – 10:55 a.m.	Municipal Traffic Safety Initiatives Award Winners: A Video Presentation Awards presented by Donna Starkey, Presiding Judge, City of Alvin
11:30 – 12:00 p.m.	Traffic Safety and Transportation Related Case Law Update* (.25 hrs ethics) Ryan Kellus Turner, General Counsel and Director of Education, TMCEC

	REACHING YOUTH	IMPAIRED DRIVING	TRAFFIC LAWS	COMMUNITY ISSUES
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.	Driving on the Right Side of the Road: featuring the Tex and Dot Puppet Show* Irene M. Webster, Traffic Safety Specialist, Marcus Sandifer, Public Information Officer, and Charlotte Aslin, Contract Specialist, TxDOT (Atlanta District) & Lisa Robinson, TxDOT Grant Administrator, TMCEC (.5 hrs ethics)	Drug Impaired Driving Dr. Sarah Kerrigan, Laboratory Director, Sam Houston Regional Crime Laboratory	Driver’s License Laws and Offenses Candace Chappell, Senior Assistant City Attorney, City of Irving	Courts, Communities, and Classrooms: Educating the Public about the Law* Bonnie Goldstein, Presiding Judge, Royse City (.5 hrs ethics)
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.	Laws for Minor Drivers Robin Ramsay, Presiding Judge, City of Denton	Intoxicated Driving Ray Dittrich, SFST Program Manager, TMPA	Travels Through the Transportation Code Gilbert Hernandez, Deputy Clerk, City of Fort Worth	Model Outreach Panel Presented by the Municipal Traffic Safety Initiatives Award Winners and facilitated by Lisa Robinson, TxDOT Grant Administrator, TMCEC
3:45 – 5:00 p.m.	Alive at 25 Renee Koog, Sergeant, and Erik Grasse, Officer, Georgetown Police Department	Role of the Magistrate in DWI Blood Search Warrants* W. Clay Abbott, DWI Resource Prosecutor, TDCAA (.25 hrs ethics)	Insurance Laws and Offenses Peter Graham, Judge, City of Irving

Day 3 - Wednesday

	COMMERCIAL DRIVERS	TRAFFIC LAWS	TRAFFIC LAWS	COMMUNITY ISSUES
8:00 – 9:15 a.m..	Unmasking CDL Masking Laws* Kevin Madison, Judge, City of Lakeway     (.75 hrs ethics)	Speeding and Speed Limits Joe Gorfida, Jr., Partner, Nichols, Jackson, Dillard, Hager & Smith, LLP	Pedestrian and Bicycle Laws David Hamilton, Prosecutor, City of Reno in Lamar County	Technologies to Enhance Traffic Safety Robin Smith, Presiding Judge, City of Midland
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.	Federal Motor Carrier Act Offenses Lester Rorick, Presiding Judge, City of Pasadena	Passenger Restraint Laws and Debates Cathy Riedel, Program Director, TMCEC	Motorcycle Laws Stewart Milner, Presiding Judge, City of Arlington	Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety Bob Gilbert, Senior Research Specialist, Texas Transportation Institute and Frank Mooney, Law Enforcement Liaison, NHTSA

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Distracted Driving: A Panel Discussion on Federal, State, and Local Response Lieutenant Craig Cannon, Highway Enforcement Command, Austin Police Department Stewart Milner, Presiding Judge, City of Arlington Richarda Momsen, Municipal Clerk, City of El Paso Janiella Shirley, Assistant City Attorney, City of Austin Katie Tefft, Program Attorney, TMCEC

* Denotes Municipal Traffic Safety Initiatives (MTSI) or Driving on the Right Side of the Road (DRSR) curriculum funded by a grant from the Texas Department of Transportation.
+ Denotes course that shall be submitted for ethics MCLE credit.

Credit:
Up to 15.75 CLE
Up to 5.00 Ethics