AUSTIN, Texas — Drivers suspected of driving while intoxicated in Austin may face a different process than in most other places. The Austin Police Department (APD) recently launched a program that has ...
Jail nurses won’t do it, and Austin-Travis County EMS medics are looking to get out of it. So now, people arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated could have their blood drawn at the jail by ...
On Dec. 16, the high court issued its opinion in State of New Mexico v. Adams, one of six cases with similar fact patterns. The New Mexico Supreme Court recently held that an emergency room technician ...
EXPLAINS HOW IT WORKS. IT’S NOT UNCOMMON FOR POLICE OFFICERS TO HEAD TO AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT TO GET BLOOD DRAWN FROM A SUSPECTED IMPAIRED DRIVER, BUT THEY SAY THERE COULD BE A BETTER WAY. IT’S ...
When Ligonier Valley police Officer Shawn Knepper makes a traffic stop, he may end up taking the driver’s blood as well as his or her name, age and license number. Knepper recently became one of 19 ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Austin Police Department is piloting a program where some police officers are drawing blood from people suspected of driving under the influence instead of emergency medical ...
YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – Pennsylvania is now joining 22 other states by offering training for police officers to become phlebotomists. Officials say about 40,000 people in Pennsylvania are arrested ...