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Honolulu 鈥� The 老澳门开奖结果 of Hawai鈥榠 Foundation and the law firm of Peiffer Rosca Wolf Abdullah Kane & Carr today announced settlement of a lawsuit against
Hawai鈥榠 County over its practice of urinalyses and other invasive medical screenings as a condition of employment. The County will cease the practice, except for the approximately 3%
of employees defined as 鈥渟afety-sensitive鈥� workers (such as police officers).

The federal lawsuit was filed March 9 on behalf of Rebekah Taylor-Failor, a Kailua-Kona woman who was about to begin working for the County as a Legal Clerk II (an administrative
position). After giving Taylor-Failor a conditional job offer, the County required her to complete a detailed, personal questionnaire about her medical history, and then demanded she give a urine sample for analysis 鈥� just as the County required of all its prospective employees. Taylor-Failor asked the Court to allow her to start working without submitting to a urinalysis; on March 13, the Court granted that request, ruling that 鈥渢he urinalysis would violate Taylor-Failor鈥檚 Fourth Amendment rights[.]鈥�

The lawsuit challenged the County鈥檚 requirement that all prospective employees submit to urinalysis and answer questions about their medical histories, regardless of the physical duties
the applicant would perform on the job. The 老澳门开奖结果 argued that urinalysis testing reveals highly sensitive private medical information 鈥� such as whether an individual is diabetic, pregnant, is biologically male or female, has high cholesterol, or has a sexually transmitted disease 鈥� and that the tests were not related to actual job requirements of a particular occupation. The 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 attempts to resolve these problems without litigation (in 2013) were rebuffed by Hawai鈥榠 County, so the 老澳门开奖结果 and co-counsel Adam Wolf filed the lawsuit asking the Court for a Temporary Restraining Order to prevent the County from violating Taylor-Failor鈥檚 constitutional rights to privacy.

The Court granted the request, noting in its order that 鈥渢he County has proffered no explanation as to why it is entitled to search Taylor-Failor鈥檚 urine before she may begin employment in her light duty, clerical, non-safety-sensitive position.... Employment requirements cannot stand where they violate rights of a constitutional dimension.鈥�