FOX Nashville reporter Kelly Avellino says the Tennessee Highway Patrol is now in full defense mode over what many drivers have started calling “sober DUI” arrests – cases where a person is arrested for DUI, then later tests negative for alcohol and drugs.
Avellino frames the moment as the result of a nearly two-year FOX 17 News investigation that helped push Tennessee lawmakers to pass a new transparency law.
That law, Avellino reports, forced the release of Tennessee Bureau of Investigation data that had not been fully shared before, and the numbers landed like a brick: 2,547 people arrested for DUI since 2017 despite testing negative for alcohol and drugs…