General Session Speakers:

Terry Pence, TxDOT Traffic Safety Director, provided a warm welcome to the conference atteendees.

Sheriff John Whestsel, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, spoke about the importance of traffic safety. 

Ryan Turner, TMCEC General Counsel and Director of Education, spoke about how municipal courts can make a difference in traffic safety.

Clay Abbott, DWI Resource Prosecutor, Texas District & County Attorneys Association, spoke about driving under the influence.

Rollover Convincer Demonstration

Texas Agri-Life Extension, Passenger Safety, provided the Rollover Convincer Demonstrations to the Traffic Safety Conference attendees. The rollover convincer shows what occurs when a person in the vehicle is unbuckled or buckled and involved in a rollover collision. 

Milton Hall, Program Assistant, Texas Agri-Life Extension, provided the Rollover Convincer demonstration.

Traffic Safety Pre-Conference: Talking to the Blank Wall: Judicial Outreach to Teens

Judges are invited and encouraged to attend this pre-conference at no charge, even if you are not attending the Traffic Safety Conference. 

Judges are leaders of their communities. They have the education, resources, and skills to solve many of the problems they ultimately adjudicate by getting involved in judicial outreach activities.

Many of our nation’s traffic court judges who adjudicate alcohol-related cases report that the individuals who appear before them are getting younger every year. These judges are also in a unique position to see the devastating and often fatal consequences associated with underage drinking and driving.

The Talking to the Blank Wall: Judicial Outreach to Teens program provides a vehicle for interested judges to get involved in prevention education in their local schools. The program also provides our nation’s judges with the teaching tools, resources, and the information they need to deliver a strong prevention message to our nation’s youth. It is critical that young people are aware of the fact that the choice they make regarding underage drinking and driving could be a life or death decision.

The Talking to the Blank Wall: Judicial Outreach to Teens is a judicial outreach program to combat underage drinking and driving.  The program allows interested judges to get involved in prevention education in their local schools.  It provides judges with the teaching tools, resources, and information they need to deliver a strong prevention message to our nation’s youth. 

The program is divided into two sections.  First, there is a review of current trends in juvenile drinking and driving, with an emphasis on how underage drinking affects the developing youthful body.  Second, participants will learn the steps necessary in making effective presentations of that information to that special teenage population.

Participants will learn how to speak so that teenagers will listen. It will also provide the participants with content ready presentations that he or she can take back to their jurisdiction and quickly implement.

If you would like to attend this special pre-conference, please contact Lisa Robinson, Grant Administrator at robinson@tmcec.com or 512.320.8274 to register or fax this form to 512.435.6118.

2009 Municipal Traffic Safety Conference Brochure & Application

2009 Municipal Traffic Safety Conference Brochure & Application for City Officials

2009 Municipal Traffic Safety Conference Agenda

For more information contact TMCEC at 800.252.3718

A project of the Texas Municipal Courts Education Center

in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation