All employees of Dawson County will be required to participate in a random drug testing program under a policy change approved Monday by the Dawson County Commissioners Court.
The blanket requirement came after it was learned that the majority of county employees will now fall under new state and federal drug testing requirements.
“By the time we’ve covered everyone else, there’s not many left,” County Judge Foy O’Brien said of the decision.
“It only seems right that you have everyone together under the same policy.”
The county already has required random drug testing for all county employees with a commercial driver’s license, O’Brien said.
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