The Ohio prisons agency is entering into a partnership through a northwest Ohio group to allow inmates who are fathers to earn a commercial driver’s license while behind bars. The program is open to inmates who qualify for a societal re-entry program and take training through The RIDGE Project, a faith-based organization in Defiance that works with imprisoned fathers and their families. The RIDGE Project is paying for the driving portion of the training with $4 million in federal grants. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction will provide four to six weeks of classroom training and Hubbard-based PI&I Motor Express will teach three weeks of driving. The program will start soon and is expected to graduate five inmates a month from Richland and Pickaway correctional institutions continue
Changes in the way Georgia driver’s licenses are issued or renewed continue to raise questions from drivers facing the new identity and residence requirements for the first time. The new rules have been especially confusing for women who have divorced, married or desire a name change on their driver’s license. Georgia Department of Drivers Services officials say on their website: “For example, a woman who has divorced and wishes to change her name on her DL or ID will present an original birth certificate plus a divorce decree showing a full legal name.” It is also stated on the website: “If the name has changed from an original birth record, passport, or other approved identity document, customers must present the complete trail of certified documents supporting all name changes. Acceptable documents include an original or certified copy of a marriage certificate or marriage license application (for all marriages), divorce decree (if a name change was specified on the decree), court ordered name change, or adoption decree. The DDS website warns drivers of potential changes in the application or renewal process. Under the heading “What Will be Different for Me?” on the website continue
A forestry worker has been awarded nearly $9000 for unfair dismissal from his job after he lost his licence for driving while drunk. The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) found Matthew Hook was unjustifiably dismissed by his employer Gale Contracting Ltd and ordered the company pay him the amount for lost and unpaid wages, lost holiday pay and costs. However, Gale directors were considering appealing the decision. “They’re naturally disappointed with the outcome and we’re currently considering an appeal,” said lawyer Luke Radich, who represents the company. In 2011 Mr Hook had been working as a foreman for the Blenheim business for two weeks when he lost his licence after he drove a company car while drunk, causing him to drive it into a ditch, said the ERA findings. The company said driving was an essential part of his job – a point Mr Hook disagreed with, said the findings. In October 2011 Mr Hook was notified by the Blenheim District Court a limited licence had been authorized for him to drive to and from continue
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