Roadside Impaired Driving Survey Sparks Outrage

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says its survey on motorist’s drinking and drug-taking habits is a vital tool for keeping roadways safe, but there’s a public outcry that constitutional rights are being violated.

FOX News Radio’s Jeff Monosso reports:

Drivers in 60 cities across the country have been stopped, questioned about their driving habits, asked for blood tests and DNA swabs in the government’s National Roadside Survey. And drivers from Texas to Tennessee contend the survey is anything but voluntary, as the government claims.

(Nieves) “The Fourth Amendment clearly states that I’m allowed to go about my business without government intrusion.”

Ricardo Nieves was stopped last month in Reading, Pennsylvania. He’s filed a federal lawsuit. Some civil liberties advocates also call the survey unconstitutional. And in Tennessee, legislation that would ban local law enforcement from taking part in the surveys cleared the State Senate.

Jeff Monosso, FOX News Radio.