What Are my legal Rights At Time of Stop?

What is Financial Responsibility?

What happens if I don’t have Insurance?

I cannot find my registration, am I going to jail?

What if the officer wants me to get out of the car?

Do I allow a search of my car if the officer ask?

Do I need to role my window down all the way?

The officer ask if I have been drinking and wants to perform a test?

I was speeding because of an emergency, what should I do?

Know Your Legal Rights!

* If you are asked to take a Field Sobriety Test?

* If you are asked to take a Breathalyzer Test?

* If you are driving with a Suspended License?

* If you are driving with an Expired License?

* If you are involved in a Traffic Accident?

* Leaving the Scene of an Accident?

* Carrying a concealed weapon without a Permit?

* Stopped and frisk on the street

* Can I really get a ticket for Jaywalking?

These are just some of the violations you can be stopped for?

* Speeding

* Tinted Windows (Legal Tint Laws in various states)

* Lost or Expired Temp-Tag(s)

* Expired Plates and Inspection sticker

* Not Wearing Your Seat Belts

* Loud Noise (Music) or Modified Equipment on your ride

* Planned Check Points

* Equipment Violations: Head Lights & Tail Lights

* Running a Red Light or Stop Sign

* Illegal Right Turn or failure to use turn signal within 100 ft.

* School & Construction Zones Speeding Violations

* Probable Cause

* Texting While Driving

* Public Intoxication and a Stop and Frisk Program

Know Your Legal Rights!

You see, this is part of the problem: who’s educating you on the correct answer to these simple questions? When you are stopped by a law-enforcement officer your heart is beating so fast, you’re frighten and nervous that you could land in jail and really screw things up for your future.

If you don’t know what’s right or wrong and you keep guessing what you should or shouldn’t do, say or not say?Believe it or not, your positive attitude is your best defense.It probably will not prevent you from receiving a citation, but it will go a long way with those law enforcement officers. You may just walk away with a warning. Your knowledge of your rights and your positive and respectful attitude will keep you from a list of headaches.

Welcome to The Knox Project, we look forward to engaging with you at your schools and in your community. If you are every stopped by a law enforcement officer we would love for you to share your experiences – good or bad. We would like to host your experience on our Media Center for others to view.

“Education is fluid and we all learn from each other’s unique and private experiences in life”.

-L.K

Constitution of the United States

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution

The word incarcerate entered the English language in the sixteenth century, tracing back to the Latin word meaning “imprisoned.” If you incarcerate people, that means you imprison them for a predetermined amount of time in a jail, prison, or a detention center. It’s good to know the meaning of incarcerate, but make sure you never get so close to it that you have firsthand knowledge of the word.