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Forget the legal niceties of how such "unwarranted searches" may violate civil rights. The judge could have ruled the other way. Consider the case of another screening issue in which the Justice Department decided last June that those who test positive for the AIDS virus are not protected under civil rights law from discrimination by their employers...
While a few percentage points in test accuracy entail the prospect of tens of thousands of false positive results and falsely labelled individuals, screening suffers from another kind of subjectivity. It is politically easiest to propose or implement screening of groups that are already defined and over which the government or an employer already has direct power--as in, for instance, the AIDS testing of ROTC cadets, the drug testing of federal employees or the testing of the employees of an estimated one quarter of the nation's largest private firms. There is no medical reason for such choices...
Likewise, anybody who calls for drug testing ought to consider the following question. What will you tell those who test positive and those who test negative? Those who test positive would undoubtedly be informed of the dangers to their own health and the potential for losing their jobs. Meanwhile, those who test negative--surprise!--would be informed of the dangers to their own health and the potential for losing their jobs if they had used the drug. Because each is being told essentially the same thing, the hidden motivation of the test emerges as an intimidation tactic...
...employees? They're an easy target. By implementing a screening process at a pre-existing checkpoint--in this case, people who need some form of security clearance--the government reinforces an existing power dynamic. Not only can they be screened more easily in a technical sense, but the drug test begins to look like just another item on a list of criteria that an individual must meet...
Wolf said that the city intends to monitor and test the site, and set up meetings to review the latest findings because they do not want any developments on areas that are unsafe...