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

Law enforcement across the country is using a roadside drug test that is mistaking common foods and even bird poop for illegal drugs.

Bird poop scraped off a man’s car appeared on a drug test as cocaine. A toddler’s ashes registered as methamphetamine or ecstasy. And a great-grandmother’s medicine tested positive for cocaine – ...

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 ...

COLORADO, USA — A new Colorado law restricts the use by police of a controversial field drug test that studies have shown can result in a high percentage of false positive cases. So-called ...

Colorado has become the first state to pass a law banning an arrest based solely on a colorimetric drug test, a common tool used by police to identify suspected narcotics in the field.

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 ...