A few months ago I mentioned here that Kansas would soon be adopting a new breatht test machine to replace the Intoxilyzer 5000, which is about 20 years old. As I suspected, the machine they have chosen is the Intoxilyzer 8000. It was just officially announced a day or two ago. As I also wrote in April, I recently went to a national seminar to get some training on the Intoxilyzer 8000. It is basically the same gizmo as the 5000, just in a prettier box. Interestingly, the Intoxilyzer 8000 was rejected by the states of Tennessee and Alabama as not being reliable enough to meet their requirements. Yet, apparently it is good enough for Kansas. So, soon we will see all new protocols, regulations, statutes and training rolled out by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Our law firm is already up to speed on this machine. It won’t change much in the way that DUI cases get handled, but things will be interesting for the next couple of years as these machines get implemented and challenged.