A great-grandmother’s medicine tested positive for cocaine – spawning a 15-month legal nightmare, forcing her to refinance her home, and spurring a new state law that could set a precedent across the ...

ATLANTA - A new study from the Penn Cary Law School at the University of Pennsylvania suggests 961 Georgians each year are falsely arrested because law enforcement wrongly trusted the results of a ...

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 ...

Colorado has become the first state in the nation to prohibit arrests based solely on colorimetric drug tests, also known as ...

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Colorado has become the first state to pass a law banning an arrest based solely on a colorimetric drug test, a common tool ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska’s Inspector General for Corrections is calling on the prison system to change how they conduct drug field tests, citing concerns about inaccuracy and unfairness. The ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - On Tuesday, Governor Jim Pillen signed a bill into law giving more protections to Nebraska’s prisoners accused of having contraband drugs. The bill, LB 519, allows incarcerated ...

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 that assess ...

In 2022, former New York City Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina testified before the city council about the flood of fentanyl coming into Rikers Island, the city's infamous jail ...

Colorado has become the first state to ban arrests based solely on a field drug test widely used by law enforcement across ...