Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: BIG BROTHER IS COMMING TO NJ Message-ID: <1035@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 15:18:58 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.1035 Posted: Fri Aug 9 15:18:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 07:07:04 EDT References: <616@mtuxn.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 17 > BIG BROTHER IS COMING! > > Here in NJ, one of the school districts has decided that all > High School students should be screened for drugs. They have > just instituted a policy (effective with the coming school year) > to force all students to submit to lab tests designed to detect > drugs. If traces of drugs are found, they plan to notify the > student's parents. I had heard no mention as of yet as to whether > the law enforcement agencies will be involved but it does seem > possible. > > The A.C.L.U has vowed to fight this - I don't blame them. The original plan would have required students to produce the urine sample in the presence of a doctor, nurse, or technician; positive results were indeed to have been turned over to the police. Both of these points have been dropped.