Smith v. City of East Point
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
McMurray, Presiding Judge.
In early 1985, the Police Department of the City of East Point received reports that some of its officers were smoking marijuana in public. The chief of police was unable to find the offending officers through conventional investigative means. Accordingly, it was determined that urinalysis would be employed to ascertain the offending officers. In order to conduct the urinalysis “in a nonselective manner,” the chief of police and the city manager decided to give the tests to all employees of the city having police power.
Appellant Smith was a captain in the city’s fire…
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