Safety Trumps Privacy in Court Case

Last Friday the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided that safety concerns, coupled with the ability of transportation workers to produce false urine samples, to allow drug testers to utilize a “direct observation technique” when collecting urine samples.  The government’s interest in providing a “drug free” work place for transportation workers trumps the workers’ right to privacy.

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