I am requesting a public hearing. I have submitted multiple petitions to the commission asking for changes to the admin code 24VAC35 which have all been denied. None of my suggestions have made it into this revision of the law. I would like to voice my concerns at a hearing about these proposed changes. 

Ignition interlock devices are already unconstitutional and unethical in a variety of ways, and the "addition" of GPS is yet one more invasion of privacy that is completely unwarranted. I don't think this is new.  I think GPS has been in use on IIDs for a long time and it's just a CYA move because citizens are becoming more aware of this revolting interlock program. 
IIDs are a constitutional nightmare, and utilizing GPS will only serve as a "foot in the door" tactic to allow our government to track citizens.

 Ignition Interlock Devices:
1) Remove the presumption of innocence
2) IIDs are legally allowed to measure only one compound, and that is ethanol.  Fuel cells are hydroxyl group detectors and detect many endogenous compounds, not only C2H6O. IIDs capture private medical waste and analyze the specimen for metabolites generated from lipid peroxidation, hypoglycemia, ketoacidosis, and ketogenesis, overproduction of candida or Saccharomyces Cerevsiae leading to hydroxyl compound production.  Breath Biopsy is in its infancy, but just recently, its been proven isopropanol, and other alcohols are detectable on the breath as early indicators of lung cancer, breast cancer, and esophageal cancer. IIDs are literally detecting early onset disease and that medical data is being totally mislabeled as C2H6O. Major medical privacy breach here. 
3) Cameras in the car, record children, private moments, and are an abysmal and egregious invasion of personal privacy.
4) GPS.  If there are 7,500-7,800 IIDs installed on any given day, according to Chris Morris, and there were something like 243 cases of circumvention in an entire year, that's .03 percent. So VASAP wants to just throw away privacy rights for the 99.6% of IID rule abiding citizens.

There is ZERO justification to use GPS to track citizens.  ZERO. To compromise the freedoms and right to privacy of the 99.6 people who are compliant goes against what America stands for.

VASAP is big brother, and this is 1984.  This sort of thing people have feared for decades and now it's being slid into Virginia law very quietly.  

If a murder is committed at a remote location and the IID GPS places the car nearby, will the federal government, JAG, or any other agency be able to subpoena that GPS data to strengthen or make a case? No one can answer me that, as I do not trust Janet Baugh's responses or intentions.

John Adams said "It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected that guilt should be punished".  This is what he meant. 

How far will this go?  IID now captures and measures private medical waste not pertaining to ethanol, captures facial images (some religions do not allow their members to be photographed), now VASAP wants to track people. What the hell for? Let it go.  Let it go.  

Before the IID DUI1 law took effect in 2012, poor Jacquelyn Braden served several years in prison for DUI3, then finally paid her fines off to be able to get her license back. When she went to reclaim her license, she was told she had to install an IID for 6 months. She was charged with tampering (circumvention) with the IID. When she was found NOT GUILTY on Feb 4, 2020, unbelievably, she stated VASAP's Richard Philips still refused to return her license. How could GPS help with this? There's already a camera. GPS could not offer any further assistance, only more invasion of privacy. 

I am vehemently against the "addition" of GPS to the IID.  It's not needed, and it only serves to create more confusion and expense.  

And I think GPS is already being used on IIDs, and it's being announced now before people figure it out and get upset that they weren't notified previously.

NO on IID GPS usage from me.  Please do not allow GPS to be utilized on IIDs in VA.

With Utmost Earnestness, 

Cynthia Hites