Click It or Ticket Grant

The Gage County Sheriff's Office had been selected to participate in the Click It or Ticket grant provided by the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety.  This grant allows the Sheriff’s Office to utilize extra full-time, part-time, and reserve deputies.  All the mileage and overtime is reimbursed from the grant.  Deputies will be on saturated patrol throughout the county.  The grant ran one week: November 23-29, 2009.

As part of the participation in the grant, the Sheriff’s Office was required to conduct a post-wave Click It or Ticket seatbelt survey.  This survey was conducted on December 3, 2009 at Highway 136 and Highway 4 east intersection.  176 vehicles and 218 people were observed during the two hour survey.  75% of the subjects were observed wearing seatbelts and 25% of the subjects were not wearing seatbelts.  A pre-wave Click It or Ticket seatbelt survey was conducted at the beginning of the grant.  The results of that survey were 63% of the subjects were observed wearing seatbelts and 37% of the subjects were not wearing seatbelts.

The goal of the Click It or Ticket mini-grant is to raise awareness of the drivers throughout Gage County to utilize the seatbelt for the safety of the motoring public.  The deputies conducted 25.5 extra hours of road patrol and logged 391 extra miles during the grant.

Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson #903

Deputy Kristin Klimek #9033 – Grant Coordinator