7:240 - Code of Conduct for Participants at Extracurricular Activities

October 2019                                                                                                         7:240-AP2

Students

Administrative Procedure - Extracurricular Drug and Alcohol Testing Program

Testing Procedures

1. The Building Principal or designee shall, from time-to-time throughout the school year, randomly select extracurricular participants for drug and alcohol testing. Testing may occur on any day, Monday through Saturday. Names will be drawn from a pool of all student participants. Each student participant may be tested at any time during the year.

2. No student will be given advance notice or early warning of the testing.

3. Drug and/or alcohol testing may be performed by breath alcohol testing and/or urinalysis. Upon being selected for breath alcohol testing, a student must provide an adequate amount of breath so that the measuring device can measure any alcohol concentration in the breath. Upon being selected for a urinalysis test, the student shall provide a sample of “fresh” urine according to the quality control standards and policy of the laboratory conducting the urinalysis.

4. A staff member will accompany the student until he or she produces an adequate urine specimen.  If unable to produce a specimen, the student will be given up to 24 ounces of fluid. If unable to produce a specimen within two hours, the student will be taken to the Building Principal’s office and told he or she is ineligible for participation in any extracurricular activity. In addition, the student’s parent(s)/guardian(s) will be telephoned and informed the student is unable to produce a sample for the testing procedure and he or she must be tested at a later date in order to be eligible.

5. All specimens registering below 90.5 degrees or above 99.8 degrees Fahrenheit will be invalid. The head strip on each specimen bottle indicates the validity of the urine specimen by temperature.  If a specimen is invalid, the student must provide another specimen.

6. A student will be ineligible for all extracurricular activities for the remainder of the school year if he or she tampers with or cheats during the collection. This will be reported to the student’s parent(s)/guardian(s).

7. Immediately after the specimen is taken, the student may return to class with an admit slip or pass with the time he or she left the collection site.

8. Each specimen is given to the laboratory for testing for alcohol, controlled substances (that may include all drugs listed as controlled substances under Illinois law), and “performance enhancing” drugs, such as steroids.

Chain of Custody

1. The laboratory will provide training and direction to appropriate staff members, set up the collection environment, guarantee specimens, and supervise the chain of custody. To maintain anonymity, the student will be assigned a number.

2. The Building Principal or designee will escort students to the collection site. No student is allowed to go to his or her locker before being escorted to the collection site. The Building Principal or designee should minimize classroom interruptions. Student participants may be summoned after school, perhaps during practice time.

3. Before a student’s urine is tested by the laboratory, he or she must sign any form that may be required by the testing laboratory. If a student chooses, he or she may notify the administrator that he or she is taking a prescription medication.

4. A sanitized kit containing a specimen bottle will be given to each student. The bottle will remain in the student’s possession until a seal is placed upon the bottle and the student signs that the specimen is sealed. The seal may be broken only by the lab testing the specimen.

5. If the seal is tampered with or broken, after leaving the student’s possession and prior to arriving at the lab, the specimen is invalid. The student will remain eligible for extracurricular activities subsequent to a retest.

6. The supervisor obtaining the urine specimen will be of the same gender as the student. Students will be instructed to remove all outerwear and wash their hands in the presence of the supervisor before entering the restroom stall. The stall door will be closed while the student provides a urine specimen. The supervisor will wait outside the restroom stall. The student will have two minutes to produce a urine specimen. The commode will contain a blue dye so the water cannot be used to dilute the sample. The faucets in the restrooms will be shut off.

7. After it is sealed, the specimen will be transported to the testing laboratory by laboratory personnel. The testing laboratory will report the results to the Building Principal or designee.

8. In order to maintain confidentiality, the student’s name will not be on the urine specimen container. Instead, the student’s random identification number will appear on the container.

Test Results

1. The Building Principal or designee will be notified of a student testing “positive” (i.e., if the test shows that drug residues are in the student’s system after using at least two different types of analyses). The Building Principal or designee will notify the student and his or her parent(s)/guardian(s). The student or his or her parent(s)/guardian(s) may submit any documented prescription or explanation of a “positive” test result.

2. In addition, the student or parent(s)/guardian(s) may request that the urine specimen be tested again by a certified laboratory at their cost.

3. If the test is verified “positive,” the Building Principal or designee will meet with the student and his or her parent(s)/guardian(s). The student and parent(s)/guardian(s) will be given the names of counseling and assistance agencies. The student may not participate in extracurricular activities until a “follow-up” test is requested by the Building Principal or designee and the results are “negative.”

4. A “follow up” test will be requested by the Building Principal or designee after such an interval of time that the substance previously found would normally be eliminated from the body. If this “follow up” test is negative, the student will be allowed to resume extracurricular activities. If a “positive” result is obtained from the “follow up” test, or any later test, the previous procedure shall be repeated. In addition, the School District reserves the right to continue testing at any time during the remaining school year any participating student who had a verified “positive” test.

5. Information on a verified “positive” test result will be shared on a need-to-know basis with the student’s coach or sponsor. The results of “negative” tests will be kept confidential.

6. Drug testing result sheets will be returned to the Building Principal or designee identifying students by number and not by name. Names will not be kept in open files or on any computer. Result sheets will be locked and secured in a location to which only the Building Principal or designee has access.

Financial Responsibility

1. Under this policy, the District will pay for all initial random drug tests and all initial “follow up” drug tests. Once a student has a verified “positive” test result and has subsequently tested negative from a “follow up” test, any future “follow up” drug test that must be conducted will be paid for by the student’s parent(s)/guardian(s).

2. A request for another test of a “positive” urine specimen is the financial responsibility of the student’s parent(s)/guardian(s).

3. Counseling and subsequent treatment by non-school agencies is the financial responsibility of the student’s parent(s)/guardian(s).

Confidentiality

Under this drug and alcohol testing program, no staff, coach, or sponsor shall divulge any information to anyone about a particular student or disposition of the student involved, other than in response to a legal subpoena.

Other Rules

Apart from this drug and alcohol testing program, the Ill. High School Association as well as each activity’s coaching staff or sponsor may have their own training rules and requirements. Coaches and sponsors have the necessary authority to enforce those rules. Any student-participant who violates a team or activity rule or requirement is subject to the consequences as defined in those rules and requirements.