Haverford Township committee narrows new consolidated drug, alcohol policy; seeks legal review on medical marijuana and driver testing levels

The Haverford Township School District Policy Committee on May 15 reviewed a proposed new consolidated employee policy on prohibited controlled substances, drug and alcohol use (Policy 350) and an accompanying administrative regulation that preserves extra testing rules for covered school bus drivers.

Committee members said the consolidation pulls together three or four older policies into a single employee-focused policy and asked staff to confirm how state medical-marijuana law and federal drug-testing rules interact and what numeric alcohol thresholds the district must use for drivers.

Justin, staff member, said the draft combines definitions from previous policies, adds a reasonable-suspicion section and moves driver-specific testing rules from former Policy 810.1 into an AR labeled 350 AR‑1. “We reorganized, really all four of those together and made uniform definitions throughout,” Justin said. He told the committee the driver testing language largely comes from federal regulation and the former 810.1 policy.

Why it matters: the consolidated text would set the district’s approach to employee testing, on-duty conduct and how the district treats employees who…