A 2024 study estimated that 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongly arrested due to unreliable roadside drug tests ...
A great-grandmother’s medicine tested positive for cocaine – spawning a 15-month legal nightmare, forcing her to refinance ...
Law enforcement across the country is using a roadside drug test that is mistaking common foods and even bird poop for ...
SAN FRANCISCO – State Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would prohibit law enforcement from making arrests or filing charges based only on certain field tests ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has said that the department discovered field-testing kits for cocaine indicated false positives. In a statement released by JSO, during a drug ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will no longer use cocaine field testing kits after learning they return false positives for some common over-the-counter medications. In a memo ...
Tens of thousands of people are wrongfully arrested for crimes based on a false positive result from a field drug test each year, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of ...