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Colorado Sheriff Creates Roadblock to Collect DNA Samples for Private Firm

Declan McCullagh writes on PoliTech:

The Gilpin County Sheriff's Office in Colorado, a rural area not that far west of Denver, recently set up a highway checkpoint where motorists were stopped and, at least in some cases, not allowed to leave until they gave breath, blood, and saliva samples for the benefit of a private research firm. A report by Ernie Hancock says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was involved as well.

[A Denver Post article is here.]

The Post says the private organization in question is the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, or PIRE, in Calverton, MD.

posted by Fergie @ 9/21/2007 02:54:00 PM