During a drug investigation in the Duval County Pre-Trial Detention Facility, ... Not only has JSO immediately ceased all use of Scott Company Presumptive Field-Testing Kits for Cocaine, ...

War on Drugs. Study Estimates Roadside Drug Tests Result in 30,000 Wrongful Arrests Every Year Despite the well-known problems with the kits, they're used in half of the roughly 1.5 million drug ...

“Presumptive field drug test kits are known to produce ‘false positive’ errors and were never designed or intended to provide conclusive evidence of the presence of drugs,” said Ross ...

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced it discovered during a drug investigation that the field-testing kits it uses to test for cocaine were indicating false positives.

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 ...

Nearly 800,000 people will face arrest this year due to the use of field drug tests, known for their well-known accuracy issues. Out of that number, approximately 30,000 arrests will include ...

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 ...

That apparently can happen with some of unreliable field drug tests on the market. By Mimi Hall USA TODAY For Nadine Artemis and Ron Obadia, ... public defenders and some narcotics experts say is a ...

Each kit has five testing strips with two tests on each side of the strip. 📺 Los Angeles news 24/7: Watch NBC4 free wherever you are Users place a drop of a drink on the strip to test it for drugs.

"The lie spreads from three sources: Faulty field drug testing kits, police departments incentivized to hype local fear, and reporters who fail to question, investigate, or follow up on police ...

"The lie spreads from three sources: Faulty field drug testing kits, police departments incentivized to hype local fear, and reporters who fail to question, investigate, or follow up on police ...

Despite the well-known problems with the kits, they're used in half of the roughly 1.5 million drug arrests in this country every year. Study Estimates Roadside Drug Tests Result in 30,000 ...