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Tupelo to resume random employee drug testing under amended handbook policy starting Oct. 1
Summary
City staff told the council the administration will resume random drug testing of all employees beginning Oct. 1 and adopt a zero‑tolerance consequence policy in the personnel handbook amendment 608.
The Tupelo City Council reviewed an amendment to personnel handbook policy 608 on Sept. 2 that city staff said will reinstate random drug testing for all employees beginning Oct. 1.
Steven (city staff) told the council the program was previously used and then stopped; the administration plans to resume random testing and to align the handbook to a zero‑tolerance approach. “Beginning October 1, we will begin rolling back out,” Steven said, and he described the proposed change as clarifying consequences for a positive test so they are consistent with the administration’s direction of a “0 tolerance policy.”
Council members asked for clarification during pre‑council; the item moved forward at the meeting with no recorded amendments. The transcript does not record appeals, requests for phased implementation, or council votes against the measure; the public minutes indicate the council approved the handbook amendment.
