With support from the OJJDP Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program, enforcement agencies, community organizations, youth, and other concerned citizens are working collaboratively to identify key issues and to implement effective enforcement strategies to reduce underage drinking and youth access to alcohol.
             Police in South Kingstown, Rhode Island have successfully tracked down the source of hundreds of fake drivers' licenses. In the course of their operation, the police put a serious dent in underage drinkers' access to alcohol.
             South Kingstown is a small town near the University of Rhode Island-sometimes called "U-R High" for its history of drinking and drug culture. This has changed in recent years as the University's President, Robert Carothers, has pushed to curtail alcohol and other drug use on campus. His efforts have caused a significant drop in alcohol-related problems. Still, the problem persists to some extent, and many students go off-campus to drink.
             The South Kingstown Police Department made an effort to reduce student access to alcohol, but they found that their compliance check operations did not have community support and were not particularly effective. Part of the problem was that retailers felt unfairly targeted-they complained that kids used nearly-perfect fake identification, making it difficult to accurately separate minors from adults.
             To deal with the ID problem, police in South Kingstown adopted the successful Identification Seizure program developed by police in nearby Newport (see the Success Story, "In Newport, RI, Police and Retailers Take the Fakes", Feb. 28, 2002). The South Kingstown police worke
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