California used faulty DUI tests for nearly 10 years, state Justice Department says

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LATimes

Almost a decade ago, a Simi Valley-based medical supply company began providing the California Department of Justice urinalysis tests for law enforcement agencies around the state that didn’t have local forensic labs to test for alcohol.

For most of that time, the test kits Andwin Scientific supplied were faulty, potentially inflating the results of DUI suspects in the heart of California’s wine country and elsewhere, according to a letter state officials sent to Sonoma County prosecutors that was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Following an audit by the state, officials told The Times this week, the state Department of Justice determined that only a small number of California’s DUI and other cases involving alcohol analyses — 0.07% — involved the faulty urinalysis tests and needed to be reviewed.

It’s now up to local jurisdictions such as Sonoma County to do a deeper dive and see if anything was missed. Large counties, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Orange counties, which have their own labs, were not affected.

But it only affected 0.07% so not that many people had their lives torn apart. (sarcasm)