Valenzuela v. CAL. STATE PERSONNEL BD.

Opinion

HUFFMAN, J.

Real party in interest and appellant, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (hereinafter Department), dismissed its employee, petitioner and respondent Luis A. Valenzuela, from his position as a corrections officer for failing a drug test. Valenzuela appealed to the State Personnel Board (the Board), on the basis that the positive drug test had been caused by his ingestion of Mexican diet medication that he had legally obtained in Mexico, and he was unaware that taking the medication could result in a positive test for amphetamines. The Board upheld the penalty.

Val…