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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT of DRIVER SERVICES | FY 2022 ANNUAL REPORT
AGENCY STRUCTURE
schools and 92 CDL Third-Party audited at least once annually. the manual on the DDS Website.
Testers. CDL Third-Party Testing Deficiencies discovered during Parent ADAP is a free and
sites employ 156 examiners to the annual audits are documented voluntary online course that
administer the CDL skills tests on to guide future monitoring events affords parents and guardians
behalf of the agency. In FY2022, by DDS. At the end of FY22, there the ability to learn about legal
there were 12,493 CDL third- were there were 216 DUI and accountability information,
party skills tests administered, Drug Use Risk Reduction Schools licensing requirements, and drug/
accounting for 61 % of all CDL and 196 Driver Improvement alcohol prevention strategies.
skills tests administered. Clinics. Parents are eligible to receive a
free, 3-year, non-certified, online
Motorcycle Safety Training Ignition Interlock MVR as an incentive for course
The mission of the GMSP is Anyone having two or more completion. In FY2022, 1,034
to foster and promote safe convictions of driving under parents enrolled in the course and
motorcycle riding through the influence (DUI) within any 328 completed the course.
quality rider education, a variety 5-year period must have a
of training courses, and a DDS-approved ignition interlock Records Management
comprehensive public awareness device installed on each vehicle This unit is responsible for
effort. GMSP offers low cost, they intend to operate for a receiving, archiving and entering
professional training to assist period up to 12 months prior to information from our field offices,
riders in improving their skills. reinstatement of their driver’s courts and other key business
Successful completion of a Basic license. It is estimated that at partners to update customer
Rider Course earns a graduate the end of FY2022, there were driver records in a timely and
a 90-day waiver from the 69 Interlock Providers and 1,323 accurate manner. Citations from
motorcycle knowledge exam and ignition interlock devices installed all states must be processed
on-cycle skills test. In FY2022, in Georgia. through this unit if a Georgia
9,445 students were trained in driver is convicted of a traffic
one of the 1,390 courses offered Alcohol and Drug Awareness offense in any jurisdiction. This
to the public. Program (ADAP) unit also processes mail-in
Teens under the age of 18 must reinstatements and motor vehicle
DUI and Drug Use Risk show proof that they have reports.
Reduction & Driver Improvement successfully completed ADAP The department processed
Most driver’s license suspensions to obtain their Georgia driver’s over 400,000k documents. The
require successful completion of license. In FY2022, 128,170 department also is responsible for
either a 20-hour Risk Reduction students completed ADAP either the medical review process who
or a 6-hour Driver Improvement at their high school, as part of a is responsible for investigating
course as a condition of driver training course or online all cases submitted for review
reinstatement. through the web-based version and releases the appropriate
Regulatory duties include the of ADAP, known as “eADAP”. In determination concerning the
certification of programs and FY2022, no schools received driver’s ability to safely operate a
instructors, risk-based auditing printed ADAP manuals. The motor vehicle. The unit received
of records and curriculum complete manual inventory at approximately 800 cases to
instruction, as well as complaint DDS was distributed in 2020. review during this period.
investigation. Each program is Instructors use the PDF version of
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