I am a close relative of the petitioner and fully understand that the interlock program was implemented with the idea that the devices only detect alcohol.  My sober family member had this device installed in her vehicle while completely alcohol free. (for almost 2 years due to provably incorrect false positives. 

Our entire extended family, since 2017, is now involved in this issue.

Your devices were contracted to detect only consumed alcohol, but that’s not how they work and your agency and the interlock industry is tricking people. Fooling people. Lying to them.  My relative isn’t wrong and our family wants vasap now to do the right thing.

Please grant this petition. we need our family to be settled and for innocent Virginians to stop being persecuted. 

This petition will eliminate all “false positive” fraud, while fulfilling the exact intent of the law. 

Stop using the readings.  You’re misusing the instrument.  “Compliance” is installing the IID, and being prevented from drunk driving,  but failed readings cannot be considered non compliance because the device did its one and only job. (and can’t tell between alcoholic compounds)

please  ponder, absorb and grant this petition. If you choose to deny it, it will only display your lack of knowledge of instrument functionality. 

in 2021 there were about 8000 iids with at least 7000 failed readings. Those are pretty terrible numbers - either you have thousands of raging alcoholics or your have a broken system and either way it’s a total failure.  

the readings aren’t an alcohol readings. it’s just electricity. You guys are just totally in the wrong .

Study, comprehend and please grant this petition. Our family is tired of trying to compel this agency to simply do  the right thing. 

I agree with this petition, vasap removed the requirement for the devices to detect solely alcohol and in removing that, removed ALL integrity if ever it existed.

“vasap recognizes that ignition interlocks can detect alcohols other than ethanol…The term “alcohol specific” is being deleted to remove any suggested claim that ignition  interlocks will only detect ethanol”

so now, literally, there is no performance standard and vasap is still using readings as if they’re ethanol. 

stop using the readings against people, that’s not how this instrument works. Just ask Ken Denton. 

vasap must immediately begin using this device in the manner in which it was intended 

please grant this petition