Maxine Bernstein reports: The city of Portland is moving to require random drug-testing of police officers, as well as drug tests of officers after use of deadly force, deaths-in-custody and traffic crashes that result in a fatality or trauma injury. The city presented a draft proposal Friday to the Portland Police Association at the end…
Category: Workplace
SCOTUS argument preview: Personal privacy
Lyle Denniston discusses the National Aeronautics and Space Administration v. Nelson case that is scheduled for oral argument on Tuesday. The Supreme Court will explore the concept of “informational privacy” — that is, protection of private and personal facts about an individual — in the context of government background checks. The case of National Aeronautics…
SCOTUS to hear NASA/JPL background check dispute Tuesday
Nora Swanson reports on a case that PogoWasRight.org has been covering since it started in 2007 (archive, recent): The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments from NASA contractors who claim the government has violated their privacy with intrusive background checks. The case involves 28 California Institute of Technology scientists, under contract with NASA at…
‘Pre-crime’ Comes to the HR Dept.
Mike Elgan writes: In the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report, police belonging to a special Pre-crime unit arrest people for crimes they would do in the future. It’s science fiction, and it will probably never happen in our lifetimes. However, the pre-crime concept is coming very soon to the world of Human Resources (HR) and employee…