Joye v. Hunterdon Central Regional High School Board of Education

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

*573VERNIERO, J.

We are called on to evaluate the constitutionality of a high school’s random drug and alcohol testing program. The program applies to all students who participate in athletic and non-athletie extracurricular activities, or who possess school parking permits. Students who test positive for drug or alcohol use are suspended temporarily from those activities or must relinquish their parking permits. They also are required to receive counseling and to seek other treatment if necessary. They are not, however, prosecuted or otherwise exposed to…