O'Keefe v. Passaic Valley Water Commission

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

POLLOCK, J.

This appeal presents a challenge by respondent, William M. O’Keefe, to the drug-testing program of appellant, Passaic Valley Water Commission (PVWC). PVWC has a written policy that all applicants for employment must submit to a drug test and that it may refuse to hire any applicant who tests positive. O’Keefe asserts that PVWC refused to hire him as a water-meter reader because he would not take the test. He contends that the program is unconstitutional under both the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution and article one,…