WA: "difficult to see how a suspicionless drug testing program is necessary"

Our local supreme court has taken the piss out of the surveillance society just a bit. From the Seattle Times:

WA high court says random school drug testing unconstitutional

The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that random drug testing of student athletes is unconstitutional, finding that each has "a genuine and fundamental privacy interest in controlling his or her own bodily functions."

The court ruled unanimously in favor of some parents and students in the lower Columbia River town of Cathlamet who were fighting the tiny Wahkiakum School District's policy of random urine tests of middle school and high school student athletes.

The high court wrote, "we can conceive of no way to draw a principled line permitting drug testing only student athletes. If we were to allow random drug testing here, what prevents school districts from either later drug testing students participating in any extracurricular activities, as federal courts now allow, or testing the entire student population?" Justice Richard Sanders wrote for the court's plurality...

Bless your libertarian heart, Justice Sanders. For a limited time the case, York et al v. Wahkiakum School District, is here ( Opinion, and a concurrence and another concurrence, and still another concurrence).