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Article • August 1, 2025 • from CLN August, 2025
The Flawed Science of Cannabis Impairment Detection: The Need for Evidence-Based Reform by David Kim As state after state abandons the failed experiment of marijuana prohibition, a critical public safety challenge remains largely unaddressed: how do we accurately and fairly identify individuals whose cannabis use has rendered them dangerously impaired …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from CLN November, 2024
NIJ Partners With Doctor to Develop Better Screening Method to Detect and Identify Drugs Postmortem by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The illicit drug market is ever evolving, with new drugs (called “novel psychoactive substances” or “NPS”) steadily appearing to avoid detection and legal consequences. Between January 2018 and December …
Article • November 1, 2024 • from CLN November, 2024
A New Approach to Drug Testing: Electrochemical Sensors and Raman Spectroscopy by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Knott Forensic laboratories screen for drugs using a combination of presumptive and confirmatory tests. The presumptive test indicates the presence or absence of a drug and is usually done in the field …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from CLN September, 2024
Filed under: Drug Testing
Hair Drug Testing: New Approach Differentiates Deliberate Ingestion or Introduction From Environmental Exposure by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Drug testing is a commonly accepted form of compliance control used widely in the U.S. It is used in criminal investigations, child welfare checks, and probation or parole monitoring. …
Article • June 15, 2024 • from CLN June, 2024
Report Finds Inaccurate Field Drug Tests Major Cause of Wrongful Convictions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke   A report published in January 2024 by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey School of Law revealed that false positives in presumptive …
Article • August 1, 2023 • from CLN August, 2023
Filed under: Drug Testing, War on Drugs
Roadside Drug Tests: Failed Technology From the Failed War on Drugs by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso Field test kits are touted as an easy way for law enforcement to determine if an unknown substance is in fact a narcotic. Millions are used each year by police during traffic stops, …
Publication • 2022
NM Legislative Finance Committe-Performance Report Card 3rd Qtr, 2022 NEW MEX I CO LEGISLATIVE FINANCE COMMITTEE Submitted by agency? Yes Timeline assigned? No Responsibility assigned? No Indexed to FY09 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Corrections Department Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2022 Corrections Department ACTION PLAN New Mexico Prison Population PERFORMANCE …
Publication • 2022
NM Legislative Finance Committe-Performance Report Card 3rd Qtr, 2022 (1) NEW MEX I CO LEGISLATIVE FINANCE COMMITTEE Submitted by agency? Yes Timeline assigned? No Responsibility assigned? No Indexed to FY09 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Corrections Department Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2022 Corrections Department ACTION PLAN New Mexico Prison Population …
Article • February 15, 2021 • from CLN March, 2021
San Francisco Forensic Analyst’s Arrest on Drug Charges Exposes Flawed Lab by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Hundreds of innocent people may have gone to jail based on potentially flawed or falsified test results by San Francisco Office of Chief Medical Examiner (“OCME”) forensic analyst Justin Volk. This alleged misconduct …
Article • April 15, 2020 • from CLN May, 2020
Filed under: Drug Testing
New Fingerprint Test Can Distinguish Whether Person Ingested Cocaine or Only Touched It by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Forensic researchers from the University of Surrey in southeast England have revealed they can examine fingerprints to determine whether a person has ingested cocaine or merely touched cocaine. In 2017, Melanie …
Article • August 21, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing
Colorado Supreme Court Announces Sniff by Drug Dog Trained to Detect Marijuana Now Constitutes a ‘Search’ Requiring Probable Cause by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Now that marijuana is legal in several states, does a sniff by a drug dog trained to detect marijuana (and other drugs) constitute a “search,” …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Florida Deputy Falsifies Drug Field-Test Results, Freeing 11 From Jail by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Steven O’Leary was a preacher before switching his career to law enforcement. The career-changing, job-hopping cop held jobs at two different departments before being hired as a deputy with Florida’s Martin County Sheriff Department …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Prosecutors Have the Power to Stop Bad Roadside Drug Tests From Ruining People’s Lives by Sagiv Galai by Sagiv Galai, Paralegal,    ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project Three years ago on New Year’s Eve, Dasha Fincher was arrested in Monroe County, Georgia, after the deputies performed an on-the-spot test of …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
North Dakota Supreme Court Announces Implied Consent Advisory Must be Read After Arrest and Before Administering Test by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In December 2018, the Supreme Court of North Dakota held that the implied consent advisory pursuant to N.D.C.C. § 39-20-01(2) and (3) must be read after placing …
Article • December 29, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Minnesota Supreme Court Joins the Chorus by Announcing Birchfield is Retroactive by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Supreme Court of Minnesota ruled that Birchfield v. North Dakota, 136 S. Ct. 2160 (2016), in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that a state cannot use criminal sanctions to compel a …
Article • December 28, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Massachusetts Supreme Court Tosses Thousands of Drug Cases After Lab Tech Scandal and Government Cover-Up by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts reached a decision in the Amherst lab scandal, where disgraced lab technician Sonja Farak tampered with and stole drugs from thousands of drug …
Article • December 21, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Police Misconduct Threatens Over 20,000 New Jersey Drunk Driving Convictions by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The New Jersey Supreme Court has issued a report and order that could result in the invalidation of at least 20,667 drunk driving convictions in the state, after a state police officer was charged …
Article • November 28, 2018 • from CLN December, 2018
Arkansas Supreme Court Reverses Negligent Homicide Conviction Where Evidence Obtained Via Warrantless Blood Draw Used by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Supreme Court of Arkansas ruled that an Arkansas statute that allows warrantless blood draws based on implied consent violated the Fourth Amendment when applied to a defendant in …
Article • September 23, 2018 • from CLN October, 2018
NY Court of Appeals Affirms Dismissal of DWI for Improper Breathalyzer Refusal Warning by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Court of Appeals of New York found that a driver’s eventual consent to a breathalyzer test was “coerced” and involuntary after police waited more than two hours to ask him …
Article • August 17, 2018 • from CLN September, 2018
Drug Detection Using Fingerprints in the Works by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to techdirt.com, scientists at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom have developed a new forensic technique that, in as little as 30 seconds, analyzes sweat found along the ridges of fingerprints to determine whether …
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