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ACLU
Sues
Oklahoma
School
District
Over
Student
Drug
Testing
8/20/99
(courtesy NORML Foundation,
http://www.norml.org)
The American Civil Liberties
Union has filed a complaint against a rural Oklahoma school district that
administers drug tests to all students who wish to participate in extracurricular
activities.
Other school districts have
employed mandatory drug-testing, but many of the activities in the Tecumseh
School District are tied to the student's classes. Students who refuse
to submit to the urine test for the activity would then be forced to drop
the associated class, thus losing credits for graduation.
The ACLU contends this is
a violation of a student's right to a public education, as well as the
Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
"First, schools wanted to
test student athletes, then it was students in extracurricular activities,
and now it's students competing in quiz bowls and performing in chorus,
where does it end?" said Graham Boyd, Director of the ACLU's Drug Policy
Litigation Project. "The district's drug testing policy is more about
symbolism than substance. Tecumseh officials initiated urine testing
without any evidence of a drug problem at the school and at a time when
government reports show that teen drug use is on the decline nationally."
The ACLU's complaint is available
online at http://www.aclu.org/court/tecumseh.html.
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Issue #104, 8/20/99
Household Survey Reports Decrease in Teen Use, While Overall Use Remains Flat | Superior Court of Guam Upholds Freedom of Religion for Rastafarian | San Francisco Plans Methadone Expansion | Members of California Congressional Delegation Urge Governor to Sign Needle Exchange Bill | ACLU Sues Oklahoma School District Over Student Drug Testing | United Kingdom: Liberal Democrat Leader Charles Kennedy Calls for Royal Commission on Drug Policy | NORML Foundation Launches Marijuana Ad Campaign in San Francisco | Lindesmith Center Seminar Series, Autumn 1999 | Errata: Methamphetamine Bill Alert, Kubby Plant Count | Editorial: Governor Bush's Cocaine Problem
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