Cortland, Cayuga, Seneca and different counties are adopting the “Blue Envelope Program.”
This system seeks to assist driving adults with autism. This system permits grownup drivers with autism to acquire a blue envelope and have them hold their license, registration, insurance coverage card or different related paperwork in it. An officer or deputy who pulls a driver over will see the blue envelope and is alerted that the driving force has autism.
It will then permit the officer or deputy to regulate their method to the state of affairs.
Cortland County Sheriff Mark E. Helms mentioned in a information launch, “A driver’s bodily actions or verbal responses which might usually be applicable throughout a visitors cease could also be past an autistic driver’s management. 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 instructions. This has generally led to an escalation of the state of affairs and resulted in a foul consequence.”
The New York State Sheriffs’ Affiliation is selling the Blue Envelope Program statewide.
Any grownup driver with autism could attain out to their county’s sheriff’s workplace and acquire a blue envelope.
