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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Some drivers in St. Clair and Bibb counties were stopped at roadblocks last weekend and asked to provide breath, saliva and blood samples. AL.com reports off-duty sheriff’s deputies offered to pay drivers $10 for mouth swabs and $50 for blood samples as part of a study by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and the National Highway Safety Administration.
The samples are reportedly for a survey that will determine if drivers take to American roads with drugs or alcohol in their systems. According to AL.com, central Alabama joined about 60 other sites nationwide participating in the study. St. Clair County Sheriff’s Lt. Freddie Turrentine tells the website that the study was also done in 2007 and assured that providing samples was completely voluntary.
Some drivers reported roadblock supervisors said the samples were for DNA but federal and state officials tell AL.com the samples were not used to gather DNA.
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