Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 54 - Criminal Procedure › 56g - Requirements for Approval, Operation and Monitoring of Alcohol Education and Treatment Programs in the Pretrial Alcohol Education System › Section 54-56g-5 - Definitions: for the purpose of sections 5 to 13 inclusive

Current through July 10, 2024
(A) "Pretrial Alcohol Education System" means
			 a system created by the Legislature to deal with the problems caused by
			 alcohol-impaired drivers on Connecticut's roads and highways. Through the
			 cooperation of the courts, the Office of Adult Probation, the Alcohol and Drug
			 Abuse Commission and Approved Alcohol Education and Treatment Programs,
			 education and treatment services are offered to eligible
			 participants.
(B) "Approved Alcohol
			 Education and Treatment Program" ("program") means a program which has been
			 inspected by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission and found to meet the
			 minimum standards of sections 6 and 7 as being able to supply evaluation,
			 education and treatment services to participants in the Pretrial Alcohol
			 Education System.
(C) "Participant"
			 means a person charged with or convicted of a violation of Connecticut General
			 Statutes Sec.
			 14-227a
			 who has been found eligible to participate in the Pretrial Alcohol Education
			 System.
(D) "Evaluation" means a
			 procedure conducted by an Evaluator consisting of an interview with the
			 participant and a review of diagnostic test results and other information which
			 indicates the degree of the participant's involvement with alcohol and
			 determines to which phase of the program, education or treatment, the
			 participant will be assigned.
(E)
			 "Evaluator" means a person who meets the requirements for evaluators contained
			 in section 10 who will evaluate and assign each participant to a phase of the
			 program on the basis of the results of that evaluation.
(F) "Drinking Driver Attitude Reassessment
			 Course" means the educational phase of the Alcohol Education and Treatment
			 program, an 8 session, 16 hour course which is designed to improve the
			 participant's decision-making ability in regard to future drinking and driving
			 behavior and to increase his knowledge of driver safety and alcohol's effect on
			 driving behavior.
(G) "Group
			 Interaction" means the 10 session 15 hour phase of the Alcohol Education and
			 Treatment Program which uses group therapy techniques and alcohol education to
			 enable the participant, whose evaluation indicates the possibility of a
			 drinking problem to understand and confront his drinking/driving behavior and
			 begin to deal with it in a positive way.
(H) "Program Administrator" means the person
			 designated by an approved Alcohol Education and Treatment Program to fulfill
			 administrative responsibilities, meet record keeping and reporting requirements
			 and act as the authorized agent of the program.
(I) "Instructor" means a person employed by
			 an approved Alcohol Education and Treatment Program to conduct the Drinking
			 Driver Attitude Reassessment Course, who has met the minimum requirements for
			 instructors contained in section 11.
(J) "Therapist" means a person with
			 demonstrated experience and competency in group interaction who is utilized by
			 an approved Alcohol Education and Treatment Program to conduct Group
			 Interaction meetings and who has met the minimum requirements for therapists
			 contained in section 12.
(K) "BAC"
			 means blood alcohol content and refers to the results of blood, breath, or
			 urine tests given to participants at the time of the participant's
			 arrest.