BUCKLEY, Wash. - Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn has been released from jail after serving his one-day sentence for drunken driving.
The 56-year-old Dorn said late Tuesday that the night he spent in the Buckley Jail in Pierce County was "lonely, sad, a couple hours devastating and no sleep."
He pleaded guilty last Friday in Orting Municipal Court. He's still required to attend a couple of drug and alcohol awareness classes, pay $866 in fines and give up his driver's license for three months.
He called the incident "a teachable moment" and says it "will never happen again."
Dorn was arrested March 21 about 15 miles from his Eatonville home while driving home from a crab feed and dance in rural Pierce County. A breath test found Dorn's blood-alcohol content was 0.11 percent. The legal intoxication threshold in Washington is 0.08.
