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Article: Florida Juvenile Justice Department Employee Sues after Firing over Drug Test.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- December 18, 2003
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By Carol Marbin Miller, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 18--After the state Department of Juvenile Justice began an agency-wide program of random drug tests, one man just said no. He says it cost him his job, and now he is taking the department to court.
Analyst Roderick H. Wenzel, a 17-year-state employee with an unblemished record, refused last August to take a mandatory drug test, citing privacy rights. His bosses told him they now had "cause" to require the test.
Only a drug-user would refuse to take a drug test, department administrators insisted.
Department Chief of Staff Jane McElroy fired Wenzel, ...