Attorney General Opinion No.

Louie L. Barney Arcadia City Attorney 302 West Eighth Street Pittsburg, Kansas 66762

Dear Mr. Barney:

As City Attorney for the City of Arcadia, you inquire whether the City's drug testing program violates the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. You indicate that the program requires that all employees, regardless of job classification, are subject to random drug and alcohol testing in order to further the City's goal of "[providing] a safe workplace by eliminating the hazards to health and job safety created by drug and alcohol abuse."1

The Fourth Amendment generally proscribes…