Kendall County Sheriff’s Office participating in year-long traffic enforcement campaign

TThe Kendall County Sheriff’s Office has announced it is conducting a year-long enhanced traffic enforcement campaign.The traffic enforcement effort is supported by a federal Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program grant administered by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The grant is funded by federal highway safety funds through the Illinois Department of Transportation.The FY27 STEP grant period runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Throughout the grant year, the Sheriff’s Office will conduct additional enforcement, including during periods with a higher risk of serious crashes, according to a news release from the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office.Deputies will focus on impaired driving, speeding, distracted driving, failure to yield, disobeying traffic signals and seat belt violations, the release said.During the previous year-long enhanced traffic enforcement campaign which ended on Sept. 30, the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office issued 690 speeding tickets and made six DUI arrests