Pretty cool to get that in this day and age.
Posted on 04/26/2012 1:22:00 PM PDT by redreno
A federal judge declared Gov. Rick Scott's order requiring drug testing for some 85,000 state workers unconstitutional Thursday, saying the governor showed no evidence of a drug problem at the agencies to warrant suspicionless testing.
The ruling marks the second blow to Scott's proposals regarding drug testing. The governor also suspended a state law he supported that required drug testing for welfare recipients last year after a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. A federal judge in Orlando has temporarily blocked that law.
The ACLU and a government worker's union also filed a lawsuit last year challenging Scott's order to drug test state employees, saying the testing violates the Fourth Amendment by subjecting state workers to an unreasonable search without adequate suspicion that they used drugs. Scott, who suspended drug testing for state employees in June, said he will appeal Thursday's ruling.
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Since when did that become the criteria for drug testing? All sorts of government departments and companies drug test and I've never heard that they had to prove an existing drug problem existed. This ruling sounds like something that will be overturned rather easily.
Pretty cool to get that in this day and age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E3jDdNTFXE
Judge kudos...less government is better
Appeal it Rick, don’t wimp out now. All government employess ought to have this as part of the test for determining if they meet requirements to hold public trust.
I don’t know how this squares with either the military drug testing policies, or the Department of Transportation policies of randomly testing flight crews.
And, confidence.
Yes, the Government shouldn’t be allowed to drug test people without reasonable suspicion, even it’s own employees.
This says nothing about private drug testing of course. Also says nothing about whether the Judge did this out of partisanship.
I’m of two minds on this. I despise the war on drugs and every manifestation of it. OTOH, let the people who rule over us feel the heavy hand of government regulation in fighting that ‘war’.
The bigger picture is that state and federal courts have shot down too many reforms from the FL legislature.
From charter schools, to state employee contributions to their retirement/health care, drug testing in order to receive state benefits . . . a court has stood in the way of fiscal and morality based reforms.
Indeed. Let's stop channeling hyperinflated profits into criminal hands.
"Indeed. Let's stop channeling hyperinflated profits into criminal hands."
Yes; and let's tax the Legalized drugs at about 400%, because unless a TAX can be had, they will legalize NOTHING.
Why do you think they don't ban cigarettes or liquor?
Seriously, though, I think illegal use of drugs (heroin, cocaine, mj, meth) pales in comparison to the abuse of legal prescription anti-depressants and pain killers, etc.
i guess that means no place else can do it either... please
Every employer in the country is allowed, under law, to have mandatory drug testing. Even WalMart drug tests applicants.
But the government can’t? No - we can’t be accountable in any way.
The Constitution limits government, not any place else.
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