Update: "East Baton Rouge School Board suspends drug-test rule for injured teachers"

So reads this headline from the Times-Picayune.

A Louisiana school board has agreed to suspend a rule that teachers must submit to drug and alcohol tests if they are injured on the job.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana joined the East Baton Rouge Parish Federation of Teachers in challenging the legality of the parish school board's drug testing policy.

An agreement filed Thursday in federal court calls for the school board to refrain from such testing unless it has a reasonable suspicion that a teacher was under the influence of drugs or alcohol while injured on the job.

That agreement will remain in effect pending the outcome of a civil rights lawsuit filed by the teachers union.

I wrote about this earlier, here.

Posted by MBC at January 27, 2009 03:18 PM