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WA: "difficult to see how a suspicionless drug testing program is necessary"

By Skelly

Our local supreme court has taken the piss out of the surveillance society just a bit. From the Seattle Times:WA high court says random school drug testing unconstitutionalThe state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that random drug testing of student athletes is unconstitutional, finding that each has "a genuine and fundamental privacy interest in controlling his or her own bodily functions."The court ruled unanimously in favor of some parents and students in the lower Columbia River town of Cathlamet who were fighting the tiny Wahkiakum School District's policy of random urine tests of middle school and high school student athletes.The high court wrote, "we can conceive of no way to draw a principled line permitting drug testing only student athletes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).