A. Vernonia School District v. Acton (1994)- Random Drug Testing of High School Athletes.
B. Facts of the case
1.The official investigation led to the discovery that high school athletes in the vernonia high school district participated in illicit drug use. School official were concerned that drug use increases the risk of sports related injury.Constantly, Vernonia school district of oregon adopted the student athletes drug policy which authorizes random urinalysis drug testing of its student athletes.The vernonia argued that, because high school athletes have decreased expectations of privacy by virtue of their participation in extracurricular athletes, the suspicionless drug testing was constitutionally justified.
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I think is important to have parent’s opinions that have childrens with this problem and what they think about the programs.
5.The parties act like this because the Court found that the government had a "compelling" need in drug testing the employees in order to ensure their effectiveness in stopping drug smugglers, as well as to protect national security interests.
C. Issues: Legal and public policy.
The Court concluded that a reasonableness test consisting of the aforementioned inquiry, coupled with the requirement of individualized suspicion, would neither overburden school officials in their efforts to preserve school discipline nor authorize "unrestrained intrusions" into students' realms of privacy.
The Court stated that a suspicionless search can only be reasonable where the individual privacy interests affected are minimal and where the intrusion upon those privacy interests furthers a compelling government interest that would be jeopardized by an individualized suspicion requirement. The court balanced the students' privacy interests against the legitimate, but not compelling, interests of the government to combat drug use and found the suspicionless urinalysis testing
B. Facts of the case
1.The official investigation led to the discovery that high school athletes in the vernonia high school district participated in illicit drug use. School official were concerned that drug use increases the risk of sports related injury.Constantly, Vernonia school district of oregon adopted the student athletes drug policy which authorizes random urinalysis drug testing of its student athletes.The vernonia argued that, because high school athletes have decreased expectations of privacy by virtue of their participation in extracurricular athletes, the suspicionless drug testing was constitutionally justified.
2. The people that …show more content…
I think is important to have parent’s opinions that have childrens with this problem and what they think about the programs.
5.The parties act like this because the Court found that the government had a "compelling" need in drug testing the employees in order to ensure their effectiveness in stopping drug smugglers, as well as to protect national security interests.
C. Issues: Legal and public policy.
The Court concluded that a reasonableness test consisting of the aforementioned inquiry, coupled with the requirement of individualized suspicion, would neither overburden school officials in their efforts to preserve school discipline nor authorize "unrestrained intrusions" into students' realms of privacy.
The Court stated that a suspicionless search can only be reasonable where the individual privacy interests affected are minimal and where the intrusion upon those privacy interests furthers a compelling government interest that would be jeopardized by an individualized suspicion requirement. The court balanced the students' privacy interests against the legitimate, but not compelling, interests of the government to combat drug use and found the suspicionless urinalysis testing