Schools turn to breath tests to stem prom drinking
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Derek Solomon, assistant principal of Smithtown High School West, tries a breathalyzer during a training session for Smithtown school staff. (May 25, 2012)
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A growing number of Long Island school districts, attempting to discourage students from pre-prom drinking binges, plan to conduct police-style field sobriety tests.
Seeking to keep their students safe, many of those districts also are buying alcohol-detection devices.
"It's become very big," said one Suffolk County highway patrolman, Jim Spadaro. He said he has trained teachers and...
