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Willful Negligence: Bexar probation still not providing confirmation to identify false-positive drug tests

Bexar County probation director Bill Fitzgerald continues to defiantly refuse to allow confirmation tests for probationers' urinalysis screenings, reports the San Antonio Current, which observes that, "By any measure, the department today is a house on fire and the only ones who can intervene, Bexar County?s local judges, have chosen to remain silent." After the agency earlier this year switched to a private treatment provider with laxer testing standards:One 20-year employee, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, said she?d never seen such an explosion of obviously bad data ? or such a poor administrative response to a critical situation. ?I?ve never worked for an administration that didn?t care [if] false positives were occurring,? she said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).