Student Drug Testing: An old and nearly forgotten phrase is uttered by a New Jersey judge... Probable cause 8/29/97

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Judge Sybil R. Moses of New Jersey's Superior Court has ordered that random drug testing of student-athletes in a Bergen County school district be postponed for at least a month. Judge Moses said that the policy may violate students' right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure as the Ridgefield Park Board of Education presented no evidence of a drug problem among its athletes.

A hearing on the temporary restraining order will take place on September 29 in the Superior Court in Bergen County. David Rocoh of the New Jersey ACLU told The Week Online that he's "reasonably optimistic" that the blanket drug testing of student athletes will be found to violate the NJ constitution. "The New Jersey Supreme Court has repeatedly acted independently of the U.S. Supreme Court, especially in recognizing Fourth Amendment protections for its citizens."

You can find the ACLU web site at http://www.aclu.org.

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