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Lawsuit: Orlando Cops Arrested Man After Mistaking Donut Glaze For Meth

October 25, 2016October 26, 2016 Asa J 465 Views concealed weapon, copblock, copblock.org, Daniel Rushing, Donut Glaze, drug test, Drug war, FDLE, filed test, filed tests, Florida, florida department of law enforcement, Florida man, lawsuit, meth, Methamphetamine, Orange County Circuit Court, orlando, Orlando Police, orlando police department, Parramore Avenue, Police State, propublica, ProPublica investigation, roadside drug test, Robinson Street, Safariland Group, Update, vehicle search

A Florida man is suing after he said he found himself behind bars when overzealous cops mistook the glaze from a donut

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Orlando Cops Arrest Man After Mistaking Donut Glaze For Meth

July 28, 2016July 28, 2016 Asa J 429 Views concealed weapon, copblock, copblock.org, Daniel Rushing, Donut Glaze, drug test, Drug war, FDLE, filed test, filed tests, Florida, florida department of law enforcement, Florida man, lawsuit, meth, Methamphetamine, orlando, Orlando Police, orlando police department, Parramore Avenue, Police State, propublica, ProPublica investigation, roadside drug test, Robinson Street, vehicle search

A Florida man is weighing legal action after he said he found himself behind bars when overzealous cops mistook the

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Man Jailed For A Month Over Soap Receives $195K Settlement

July 15, 2016July 18, 2016 Asa J 681 Views Alexander Bernstein, Anadel Cruz, arrested for soap, cobalt thiocyanate, cocaine, copblock, copblock.org, Drug war, false positive, false positives, federal lawsuit, field test kit, homemade soap, Interstate 78, Justin Julius, lawsuit, Nicholas Goldsmith, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State Police, Pennsylvania state troppers, Police State, propublica, ProPublica investigation, roadside drug test, roadside drug tests, Safariland LLC, soap, South Whitehall Township, Speeding, unreliable field tests, wrongly jailed

Pennsylvania taxpayers are on the hook after a Brooklyn, New York man claimed he was wrongly jailed for almost a

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Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data – Just Not With You

August 9, 2012May 9, 2013 Pete Eyre 311 Views at&t, cellphone companies, cop block, copblock.org, deutsche telekom, expectation of privacy, Featured, location data, megha rajagopalan, Police State, Privacy, propublica, sprint, t-mobile, verizon

This write-up from Megha Rajagopalan was originally posted at ProPublica.org: Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and

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