Your Drunk Driving Arrest May End Up On Twitter (Fox Charlotte)

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By FRANK CARNEVALE

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - If you get arrested for drinking and driving in one Texas county this holiday week, your name may end up on Twitter.

The district attorney's office of Montgomery County has decided to post the names of those charged with driving while intoxicated between Christmas and New Year's Eve, reported ComputerWorld .

"There is definitely a deterrent effect in the potential public humiliation people may face when they get arrested for DWI," said assistant district attorney Warren Diepraam, who came up with the idea of posting the arrests on Twitter, to MyFox Houston .

The names will be posted to District Attorney Brett Ligon's Twitter page. So far no names or arrests have been posted to the page.

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