{"id":39114,"date":"2019-08-13T07:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39114"},"modified":"2019-08-13T08:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:08:03","slug":"d-mass-transit-worker-in-safety-sensitive-position-could-be-drug-tested-for-an-incident-short-of-an-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39114","title":{"rendered":"D.Mass.: Transit worker in safety sensitive position could be drug tested for an &#8220;incident&#8221; short of an &#8220;accident&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston MTA did not violate the Fourth Amendment by requiring a drug test of an employee involved in an \u201cincident\u201d short of an \u201caccident.\u201d The employee was in a safety sensitive position. Cabral v. Mass. Bay Transp. Auth., Boston Carmen&#8217;s Union Local 589, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 135579 (D. Mass. June 18, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Probable cause here was based on the overwhelming smell of unburnt marijuana, the fact defendant didn\u2019t have an MMJ cultivator\u2019s license, and prior convictions for growing and distributing marijuana. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/documents\/2019\/08\/12\/u12694.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Long<\/a>, 2019 Mass. LEXIS 499 (Aug. 12, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston MTA did not violate the Fourth Amendment by requiring a drug test of an employee involved in an \u201cincident\u201d short of an \u201caccident.\u201d The employee was in a safety sensitive position. Cabral v. Mass. Bay Transp. Auth., Boston &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39116,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114\/revisions\/39116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}