Legal Opinion

Opinion No. (1998)

Oklahoma Attorney General Reports

Decided August 31, 1998Published

1Opinion of the Court

Dear Director Saffle,

¶ 0 This office has received your request for an Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following question:

May the Oklahoma Department of Corrections require drugtesting, including random, reasonable suspicion andpre-employment, pursuant to the Standards for Workplace Drug andAlcohol Testing, 40 O.S. Supp. 1997, §§ 551[40-551] to 565, for allemployees and employee candidates?

¶ 1 Your question raises issues concerning the Fourth andFourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Generally, the Fourth Amendment, which is made applicable to the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
  2. United States v. JanisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  3. Vernonia School District 47J v. ActonSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
  4. National Treasury Employees Union v. Von RaabSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  5. Chandler v. MillerSupreme Court of the United States · 1997

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