Chicago DUI attorney comments on the potential failure of alcohol testing devices

This Chicago DUI attorney has posted here alcohol monitoring devices.  Essentially, this device is supposed to relay, if you consumed alcohol and when, continuously by registering the intake through your pores.

It sounds like a good idea, but you can’t forget that you are wearing it.

From mtv.com:

In the wake of Lindsay Lohan's SCRAM alcohol-monitoring bracelet being set off, her lawyer says the device did detect the physical presence of alcohol.

As The Associated Press reports, Shawn Chapman Holley issued a statement Tuesday saying the SCRAM bracelet indicated the presence of "a small amount of alcohol" on Sunday night. The troubled actress avoided jail time Tuesday after posting $200,000 bail for violating a court order banning her from consuming alcohol.

While the fact that the device was set off may appear problematic, Lohan's lawyer declined to confirm whether alcohol was indeed present in the actress' system: "Having just received the report, I am not in a position to speak to its accuracy or validity, however Ms. Lohan maintains that she has been in complete compliance with all of the terms of her probation and her bail."

The SCRAM bracelet detects alcohol consumption through the measurement of the wearer's perspiration. The device then sends information about the blood alcohol content to Alcohol Monitoring Systems, which manufactures the bracelet. As the bracelet not only detects alcohol from ingesting beverages, wearers are told to avoid consuming products that may also contain alcohol, such as mouthwash, cologne and perfumes. Lohan is familiar with the SCRAM bracelet, as the actress volunteered to wear the device following her 2007 DUI arrest.

Is it possible the alcohol bracelet picked up passive alcohol?  Sure it is, it’s a machine and we all know sometimes machines don’t operate properly.