On Monday, the NPR show All Things Considered had a nice feature on New Jersey’s new random drug testing plan for all high school athletes, which will take effect next fall. You can listen to the story here. There are some good stories about the new plan here and here as well as a post by Guest Contributor Jennifer Wieland here. The NJSIAA has now released the list of 80 substances targeted by the test.To find out what New Jersey high school kids think (including comments such as “Drug testing the students isn't reasonable unless you see that student scratching his/her neck too long 'cause fiends shouldn't be participating in extracurricular activities feel me,” by Newark’s Manny P.) you can go here.
The ACLU thinks the plan is “really poor public policy,” but appears unlikely to mount a challenge because, as Rutgers-Newark law professor Doug Husak observes, the chances of obtaining judicial relief are “very remote.”