How The Feds' $8 Million Roadblocks Secretly Tested Drivers For Booze [View all]
Source: Jalopnik
If you were driving home and a cop ordered you to park somewhere, and then someone from the government asked for your saliva or blood while secretly testing you for alcohol use, would you feel like your rights were violated? Many Americans did when it happened to them, according to documents from a Freedom of Information Act request by Jalopnik and a closer look at the program's methods.
Thousands of Americans are still furious over the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's $8 million, local police-aided roadblock alcohol and drug test surveys that was run in 60 cities last year.
... Documents from a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Jalopnik seeking complaints about the program following last year's outcry over roadblocks in the Dallas area, as well as media reports from the time, reveals an agency inundated with criticism over the program, and one caught seemingly unprepared to deal with the backlash.
Furthermore, while NHTSA has claimed the surveys were entirely voluntary, a closer look at the survey's methodology reveals stopped drivers were secretly tested anyway before they could give or deny consent.
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