RANDOM DRUG TESTING IS LOSS OF CIVIL LIBERTY

I would like to voice my opposition to the recent pact made between
the Hawai'i State Teachers Association and the Department of
Education, which would submit teachers to random drug testing in
exchange for a pay increase.

The testing, as it is proposed, is unconstitutional and represents a
forfeiture of civil liberties.

Civics and social studies teachers, as well as anyone with rudimentary
knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, will tell you that testing of
bodily fluids for drugs is a case of unreasonable search and seizure
of a person (a right specifically protected by the Fourth Amendment).

Peter Hansen

Honolulu