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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But the government cant?
It's not clearly outrageous to read the Fourth Amendment's "the people" as including government employees.
Such a policy must include a provision for random drug testings of employees.
Even if a Florida business does not engage in direct commerce with the State of Florida, the State of Florida has approved unconditional insurance rules that heavily penalize businesses through both Workman's compensation and liability, if those companies do not conduct “random drug testing” of employees.
Sooooo, if the State can't require it of their own employees, how can the State demand it be done to private businesses?
Think about it.
If they are going to drug test government employees, then start with testing the White House and Congress.
You think there is a War on Drugs now, just wait until they're legal and the government has a stake in it....they don't exactly like competition.
You think there is a War on Drugs now, just wait until they're legal and the government has a stake in it....they don't exactly like competition.
The current war on illegal purveyors of the legal drugs alcohol and tobacco is much preferable to the war on illegal-in-all-cases drugs.
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