A study group wants to change Wisconsin’s alcohol environment, and its members came up with a total of 49 recommendations for state and local governments, communities, employers and educators. Julia Sherman is the Chair of the Alcohol Culture and Environment Workgroup, whose panel of experts note that Wisconsin is one of only two states that allows parents to purchase alcohol for their children in public.

“One of our recommendations is that we go with what is the mainstream in this country, where parents can serve alcohol to their own children in their own homes, but not elsewhere.”

Also, Sherman says many states have found sobriety checkpoints to be effective in reducing impaired driving. [Read more...]