Each year, over 750,000 people in the U.S. are arrested for drug possession based on roadside/field drug test kits. Yet, these inexpensive tests are frequently inaccurate in identifying illegal substances. As a result, tens of thousands of innocent people are jailed and burdened with drug convictions that afflict them for life.
A just-released study from the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania found that these error-prone field drug tests were the “largest known contributing factor to wrongful arrests and convictions in the US”.
At the Roadside Drug Test Innocence Alliance, we advocate for reform in the way in which inaccurate field drug test kits are used in arrests, prosecutions and convictions, and the adoption of more accurate test alternatives.
See how a faulty drug test sent an innocent mother of four to jail.
See how an inaccurate drug test impacted the life of one innocent teenager.
