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Florida Woman Faced 10 Years for ‘Meth’ That Was ‘Just a Rock’
A scandal of falsified drug arrests is spreading at a Florida…

Bad Drug Tests Have Put Central Floridians in Jail for Doughnut Crumbs, Drywall. Local Company Hopes to Make a Better System
A Central Florida company has been awarded a $225,000 grant…

Florida Woman Faced 10 Years for ‘Meth’ That Was ‘Just a Rock’
Melissa Morales was riding her bicycle near the Flamingo Diner…

Watch a Florida Cop Botch a Drug Field Test on Video, Then Arrest an Innocent Man
Body camera footage obtained by Reason appears to show…

Presumptive Drug Test Training
UCF doctoral students Emily Lennert and Jessica Sprague, along…

Police Mistook Her Cotton Candy for Meth and Sent Her to Jail. Now She’s Suing.
When Monroe County sheriff’s deputies asked Dasha Fincher…

Why are Police Departments Still Using Drug Field Tests? – The Washington Post
In this opinion piece, journalist Radley Balko discusses potential…

She Told Cops They Were Vitamins. But Botched Test Kept Florida Mom in Jail for Months – The Miami Herald
Rebecca Shaw of Tampa Bay spent five months in jail after a field…

Police Mistake Powdered Drywall for Cocaine
A man spent nearly three months in the Seminole County Jail after…

Drug Field Tests, False Positives, and Bogus Pleas
On April 28th, 2017, the Public Defender for the Ninth Judicial…