IF YOU NEED HELP
If you have been negatively impacted by an inaccurate roadside drug test, or are facing or defending a prosecution based on a roadside drug test kit, here are links that may be helpful to you:
REPORTS/STUDIES
· Roadside Drug Test Innocence Alliance Field Drug Test Policy Briefing
https://squarespace.com/RDTIA+Policy+Briefing.pdf
· Quattrone Center Field Drug Test Wrongful Arrests and Convictions Study
https://www.quattronecenter/reports/field-drug-tests-and-wrongful-convictions/
· National Institute of Justice 2018 Study of Field Portable Devices for Presumptive Drug Testing
https://nij.ojp.gov/landscape-study-field-portable-devices-presumptive-drug-testing
· 2014 Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department forensic scientist, Stefana Fedchak’s report on Presumptive Field Testing Using Portable Raman Spectroscopy
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/244564.pdf
· Florida Forensic Science Scott Cocaine Test False Positive and Negatives Review
https://www.floridaforensicscience.com/false-positives-false-negatives-cocaine-specific-field-test
· University of Nebraska study on Amphetamine Field Test False Positives Caused by Sugar
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=chemistrydiss
· U.S. Government Accountability Office 2021 report on Customs and Border Protection’s use of field drug tests.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/720/713962.pdf
· NYC Department of Investigations 2024 report on Fentanyl Drug Test Accuracy in the NYC Department of Corrections
https://rdtinnocencealliance.org/s/NYDOCFieldTestingRpt11202024.pdf
· Nebraska Inspector General’s 2024 report on Field Drug Tests for Discipline of Incarcerated People
https://rdtinnocencealliance.org/s/Nebraska-Inspector-General-Field_Drug-Test-Report.pdf
LEGAL
· 2018 California Superior Court decision related to the use of field drug tests in grand jury proceedings
https://rdtinnocencealliance.org/s/2018-Imperial-County-CA-Superior-Court-NIK-test-decision.pdf
· 2020 9th Circuit Court of Appeal Brief related to field drug test usage in prison disciplinary sanctions
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7326382/Steffey-v-Salazar-9th-Circuit.pdf
· Class Action complaint against Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MADOC)
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21019044/green-v-ma-doc-complaint.pdf
· MADOC preliminary injunction and TRO prohibiting uncorroborated field drug tests in inmate sanctions
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21124236-mass-doc-tro
· MADOC Illicit Substance Introductions Legal and Non-Legal Mail Report
MEDIA
· 2016 ProPublica investigation on How Roadside Drug Tests Send Innocent People To Jail.
· Reason.com Article: The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary
https://reason.com/2021/06/13/the-2-drug-test-keeping-inmates-in-solitary/
· 2024 NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt segment on Quattrone Center Field Drug Test Study
Field drug tests wrongfully implicate tens of thousands of Americans every year, study finds
· 2024 Fox News Atlanta segment on the Quattrone Center field drug test study
I-Team: Study: Nearly 1,000 Georgians wrongly arrested due to false positive drug field tests
· 2023 Jacksonville Co. Sheriff's Office Scott Co. Test Discontinuance Due To False Positives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIGZ7VkwvE
· 2023 Jacksonville, Florida Report Re Innocent Man Jailed for 5 Days Due to Scott Co. False Positive
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/dropped-drug-charges-not-end-legal-issues
· 2024 Fox Atlanta News Segment - Army Private False Positive Arrest for Melatonin Tablets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuojNCgRSDg&t=64s
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