Insuring A Drug Free Workplace For State Employees  Gov. Rick
Scott signed executive order (11-58) Tuesday that will require
drug testing of many current state employees as well as pre-
employment testing for applicants.   Of course, the ACLU has
their shorts in a wad over this. Citing a ruling by U.S.
District Judge Robert Hinkle in 2004 that random drug testing
was unconstitutional, a violation of the Fourth Amendment as
considered an unreasonable search.  The ACLU apparently missed
the difference between purely random testing and Gov. Scott’s
order which requires everyone be tested ‘at least quarterly.’
This order doesn’t apply to every state employee, just current
employees in agencies that answer to the governor. Whoever they
are.  Aside from the obvious benefits of assuring a drug-free
workplace, as opposed to a free-drug workplace, there is a
demonstrable economic advantage to such a policy in terms of
insurance. Fewer accidents, less loss. All of which the
taxpayers pay for.  The reference to taxpayer