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| Senate OKs drug testing of state employees |
| By weblogs.sun-sentinel.com - Kathleen Haughney |
| Published: 03/09/2012 |
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TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Senate this morning signed off on a bill that requires the state drug test its employees. "We as policy makers of state government policy, owe it to the taxpayers and to the employees to have the best workplace environment they can possibly have," said Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, the senate sponsor of the bill. The bill, which now goes to the governor, comes a year after Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order mandating that state employees be randomly drug tested. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately sued the state, arguing that other courts had struck down random drug testing of public employees who did not hold a public safety position. Scott, in turn, revised the order and drug testing is only taking place at the Department of Corrections, which already tested many of their employees. Read More. |
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