YATES COUNTY, N.Y. — A brand new program in counties throughout New York state goals to make driving safer for folks with autism.
The Yates County Sheriff’s Workplace says it adopting the “Blue Envelope Program.” This system encourages drivers with autism to maintain their license, registration, insurance coverage playing cards, and different related paperwork in a blue envelopment inside their automotive. When a driver with autism is pulled over, the officer is conscious the driving force has autism, and may modify how they work together through the cease.
Yates County Sheriff Frank Ryan says this system can forestall officers from misinterpreting a driver’s actions or speech patterns.
“There have been some unlucky incidents the place, throughout a visitors cease of an individual with autism, the officer has misinterpreted the driving force’s actions, or the driving force’s failure to appropriately reply to requests or to instructions,” mentioned Sheriff Ryan. “This has generally led to an escalation of the scenario and resulted in a foul final result”
Together with Yates County, the sheriff’s places of work in Livingston, Seneca, Monroe, and Cayuga counties are additionally adopting this system.
The New York State Sheriffs’ Affiliation is selling this system throughout New York state.
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