Success Story: Monroe County Coalition
From picture: Chief Donie Lee, right, presents a mobile identification card scanner to Division of Alcoholic
Beverages and Tobacco Agent John Hernandez.Department Targets Underage Drinking
KEY WEST - Key West Police Department Chief Donie Lee announced in July the department's new goal of reducing the amount of underage drinking that occurs on the island through a new Anti-Underage Drinking Initiative.
Chief Lee launched the initiative by presenting Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco Agent John Hernandez
with a new mobile identification scanner, which can be used on-scene to verify IDs.
The new mobile identification
scanner was provided through the Monroe County Coalition, a community collaboration project organized to combat underage drinking. ABT provides education and training for retail stores to protect youth from underage sales of alcohol and tobacco.
The Monroe County Coalition provided the scanner to the KWPD as it launched its anti-underage drinking campaign.
This new initiative is the department's effort to increase community awareness of underage drinking issues and will focus on increasing licensed establishments' roles and responsibilities in identification card checks as well as patrol
saturations in certain areas at certain times targeting underage drinkers and drivers.
For ABT retail training,
call 305-292-6755.
For more information on the coalition, please visit Monroecountycoalition.org.