Michael Mikkelsen, a 29-year-old political activist from Kansas City, Mo., doesn’t support drunken driving. But he’s strongly against police DUI checkpoints, which he says violate drivers’ constitutional rights.
Mikkelson’s taken his mission to Twitter, tweeting out checkpoint locations and getting tips from other Twitter users about checkpoint spots. Sometimes he tweets out the link to a live stream he sets up to monitor checkpoints.
Mentioned later in the article is 2008-2009 Reynolds Fellow Jen Reeves:
Twitter users such as Frizzell can fill the gaps between what happens on the street and what ends up on the news, but it’s important to note that the information is preliminary and not always accurate, said University of Missouri professor Jen Reeves.
Reeves cited an incident in Columbia, Mo., where a Twitter user sent out an erroneous tweet that there was a gunman loose on the Missouri campus.
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