Editorial Policy

Official Sources Only

Penalties, deadlines, license rules and dollar amounts come only from official sources:

• state statutes, read on the state legislature's code site;
• state motor vehicle and licensing agencies, for license suspension, hearings, hardship licenses, ignition interlock and SR-22 or FR-44 filings;
• state courts and attorneys general, for court process, record sealing and expungement;
• federal agencies, such as FMCSA for commercial driver's license rules and NHTSA for blood alcohol context.

Other DUI websites, law-firm marketing, insurance company blogs, forums and data aggregators are never used as sources. Each state fact shows its citation and the month it was checked. How we research explains the method in full.

General Information, Not Legal Advice

Pages explain what each state's law says. They don't tell you what to do in your case, and they never predict a sentence, a plea offer or whether you'll keep your license. Using the site doesn't make anyone your lawyer. Where the answer depends on your facts, pages point you to a lawyer licensed in your state, your state bar's lawyer referral service, or a public defender through the court.

DUI Help doesn't name, rank or recommend individual lawyers or law firms, and no lawyer pays to be mentioned.

Plain, Respectful Language

• Pages talk to you directly, in short sentences, for someone reading on a phone after a stressful day.
• Pages describe the law, not the person. They don't lecture or shame anyone for being charged.
• Legal terms you'll see on court papers or a DMV notice, such as "implied consent," "administrative suspension" or "lookback period," are kept and explained the first time they appear.
• Each state's own term is used on its pages: DWI in Texas, OWI in Iowa, OUI in Maine and so on.
• A rule and its limit are stated once, without piling on warnings.

What Every Page Goes Through Before Publishing

• It answers its main question near the top, naming the state, the offense and the number.
• Each state fact is recorded with its citation, the official link and the date it was checked. A fact the official sources don't settle is left off the page, never guessed.
• Automated checks confirm that figures match the state records, that internal links work and that no figure contradicts another page.
• It is credited to the DUI Help Editorial Team. No page is presented as reviewed by a lawyer.

How Corrections Work

A page is corrected when an official source shows it is wrong or out of date. The correction fixes the state record, so every page that uses the fact changes together, and the checked date moves forward. To report an error, use the contact form with the page address and, if you can, the statute or official page that shows the right detail.

Independence From Advertisers

The site is paid for by display ads from Google AdSense. Google chooses the ads; the site doesn't pick advertisers, and advertisers never see a page before it goes live or have any say in what it says. Ads never decide which states or topics are covered or what a tool's result shows. The advertising disclosure covers where ads appear.

How a Sponsored Offer Would Be Labelled

An SR-22 insurance offer may be added later on SR-22 pages. If it is, it will sit in its own box labelled Sponsored, with a disclosure line, below the page's answer and never inside a tool, a penalty table or an answer. Its links will be marked as sponsored for search engines. A sponsor never shapes a page's facts, and sponsored content is never presented as a recommendation.

Who Is Responsible

DUI Help is published by Rupe Enterprises LLC, a Washington company. Neither the publisher nor the editorial team gives legal advice or represents anyone in court or at a license hearing.