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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: BIG BROTHER IS COMMING TO NJ
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 15:18:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 15:18:58 1985
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> 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.