The judge never got to see the dashboard camera video because the parole officer pleaded guilty Thursday morning.

The trooper said the officer almost caused an accident and that drunk driving is drunk driving no matter who you are.

“I turn around and got behind you and you were actually traveling on the wrong side of the roadway,” Trooper George Cotton can be heard saying on the dashboard camera video.

Cotton said he watched as the Grey Xterra drove down the center lane of LaFayette Parkway and into oncoming traffic. When he turned his car around to pull the driver over, he said Tracie Kennedy sped up at first before coming to a stop.

On the tape, Cotton asked Kennedy how much she had to drink and she can be heard saying, “A lot.”

Cotton said he focused on the open bottle of beer in her car rather that her being a state parole officer. Her passenger was a chief investigator with the Troup County Sheriff’s Office -- which Kennedy pointed out.

The camera caught Cotton asking Kennedy how much beer she had open in her car, and she answered, “Chief Investigator Troup County Sheriff’s Office.”

She brought up the investigator more than once and identified her passenger as Willis Grizzard.

“We’ve got a job to do, if we let those people go that believe they deserve special treatment then why arrest anybody? Fair is fair,” said Cotton.

The solicitor general said Kennedy’s court proceeding was also fair. Kennedy pleaded guilty and got a year probation and close to $1,000 in fines.

“We don’t particularly care who somebody is or where they’re from or what they do in life. It’s just as easy for a head of a company to end up with a DUI as someone who’s practically destitute,” said Solicitor General Markette Baker.

Baker said she believes the DUI was a wake-up call for Kennedy. Kennedy was fired as a result of the charges.

The night of her arrest, she can be heard saying, “Please don’t. I’m going to lose my job because of you.”

The sheriff said Kennedy’s passenger was off duty and broke no laws, so he is in no trouble.