Since 1997, Jay Marshfield has been utilizing state-of-the-art technology to reduce the repeat offense rate of DUI offenders. His company, The Interlock Guy, LTD, has grown to include seven offices throughout the Northeast Ohio area and provides communities with an extra tool to help DUI offenders become successful in modifying their behavior. We visited The Interlock Guy's Brunswick office recently and listened as Jay and General Manager Brian Adkins described their services and the success rate they've enjoyed;

The Interlock Guy is a service based business dedicated to the elimination of all DUI repeat offenses through education and the promotion and use of the LifeSafer Ignition Interlock programs. We install Breathalyzers in motor vehicles that prevent them from starting until the driver first takes a test to ensure they have no alcohol in their system. We provide the electronic monitoring equipment that enables judges to reduce crowding in our jails by sentencing offenders to house arrest. We also provide GPS tracking services, typically used in domestic violence cases, that monitors a person's exact location and we handle drug testing services for several local courts.

As a service industry, we have an obligation to treat defendants coming to us from the court system as customers. Many people in this industry don't have customer service backgrounds but we realize that although the court system is our first customer, the end user of our systems, the defendant, is also a customer. We show them how our program works, install the equipment, and basically walk them through the whole program, step by step. We provide basic counseling, not just on how to use the equipment, but on how they ended up at this point, how we can help them through this emotionally, and how we can work together to prevent this from happening again.

Our programs are not only available through the court system, but are provided as voluntary programs for parents and spouses who want to establish a comfort zone, knowing that their car's not being started by a driver with alcohol in their system. We can design programs to provide peace of mind during proms, homecomings, and graduations in addition any occasion when a parent or spouse wants the comfort of knowing their loved one is alcohol free.

Our products and services utilize the highest technology in house arrest and interlock, GPS, and drug testing, are the most affordable in the area, and are the highest quality service of any company in the industry today. The national average repeat offense rate of DUI offenders is over fifty percent and some individual courts experience a repeat rate of over eighty percent. With our products and our services, we can bring the repeat offense rate down to less than five percent by working with people not as defendants, but as valued customers.

The Interlock Guy has a proven history of successfully lowering the DUI repeat offense rate while providing an unparalleled level of customer service. Call The Interlock Guy today and don't forget to tell them that The Advocate sent you!