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Southaven updates employee handbook to add hair‑follicle follow‑up testing for law‑enforcement drug disputes
Summary
City attorney told aldermen that Mississippi amended statutes now allow hair‑follicle follow‑up testing when officers dispute urinalysis results; the board approved updating the handbook to adopt federal cutoff levels consistent with the new law.
City attorney Nick Manley told the Board of Aldermen that the Mississippi Legislature recently revised the state code to permit hair‑follicle analysis for law‑enforcement employees who dispute a positive urinalysis result.
Manley said the revised sections (Miss. Code §§45‑6‑16 and 45‑6‑17) direct employers to allow hair‑follicle testing as a follow‑up and that the city’s handbook amendment adopts the federal cutoff levels for that analysis to remain consistent with state law. "Therefore, this revised policy in our handbook utilizes the federal cutoff levels for the hair follicle analysis, which will be consistent with the Mississippi law for those follow‑up tests for our police officers," he said.
The board moved, seconded and approved the handbook amendment as recommended by the human‑resources director. No public opposition or substantive debate was recorded during the roll call.
The change applies specifically to law‑enforcement follow‑up testing procedures; the city did not amend other employee‑testing policies at tonight’s meeting.
