REDWOOD CITY — Prosecutors haven’t found any police departments in San Mateo County that use a faulty breath test for alcohol that has sparked a review of 865 DUI cases in San Jose. All but three of ...

The Alco-Sensor IV is a handheld breath alcohol tester which, using fuel cells, provides a simple, accurate and economical method of determining the alcohol concentration in a person’s breath. Both ...

Palo Alto police and Santa Clara County prosecutors are taking second looks at 133 drunken driving cases from last year in which a defective field breathalyzer was used, officials said Wednesday.

In the strictest ever action against pilots reporting drunk for work, a private airline commander’s flying licence was cancelled on Wednesday for five years. All 12 failed the new alco sensor-IV ...

Breath-analysis machines used by police forces across B.C. are incapable of differentiating between mouth and blood alcohol, are prone to human error and should not ...